Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

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.

You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose is one of them.

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection - only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation...

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

To have a blog is to have some portion of your brain assigned to monitoring your audience.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.

China will certainly pay more attention to human rights.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.