I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

This proves Indians do nothing else but surf the Web.

Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.

Context shapes who you are.

I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

Hey everybody, this is Rob Halford from Fight wishing you all a crazy heavy metal Christmas and an insane, wild manic New Year!

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

With Godzilla, I've been a huge fan my whole life.

This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.