I thought the whole world was like Lorain.

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.

Without Creativity there is no INNOVATION!

That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

I try to stay calm and I try to enjoy myself as I perform these actions so I perform them with minimal stress on my body.

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity.

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.

The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.