I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read 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.

One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

He dinna act like an Alpha." "He does in some areas.

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

I have calmed down my look. Is it really necessary to wear all that jewelry and makeup at 7 A.M.? When you're tired, you start to over-compensate by wearing too much bling.

It seemed impossible to make an appealing show about bulimia. I mean, it's my story, and even I don't wanna watch that. Plus, everybody told me not to - I like a challenge.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love.

Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.