Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

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.

When you attempt suicide, the counselors try to talk you out of trying it again by asking you about other people, which is good prevention if you care about other people.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

When you look back, most days in life seem ordinary, but there are some that change your life forever and remain etched in your memory.

Things don't always end up the way we planned but it doesn't mean the plan wasn't magical while it lasted.

Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.

When I get down, I don't waller around for long.

I asked my Dad once, "How did you and Mum stay married for 33 years?" He said. "Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time.

Death comes for us all in the end.

The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?