It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

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.

No one is ever really lost as long as their story still exists.

The world to have a balance first it needs one liar and one guy who can discover who is lieing. That's called balance!

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

I did as well as I could at Newcastle.

I know I'm unpopular.

In a few short years you might have to become a scuba diver and go hundreds of feet underwater - It will be the last refuge of pure aura and power on our planet, the oceans' depths.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.