Laughter is more serious than tears.

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.

If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.

She is mine.' Edward’s low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didn’t say I would fight fair.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what you are in the process of becoming

Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.

Love makes saints or sinners out of men.

And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.