I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

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.

Life is travelled at a pace one decides for themselves

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

We don't need to be a pro photographer for making a photo or an experienced author for making quotes, everyone can make photos and quotes.

The best wins or looses in life are those that leave you with a newer vision onto life.

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

Make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.