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

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.

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.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.

The important thing is that you've got to have ideas in the first place. And you need to have the passion to implement them.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.

Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.

There's all kinds of theories among the cartoonists: start with funniest, end with funniest.

The fight for survival is the fight

I don't care if you got knocked up. I can still rip your throat out

I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.