Love is divine only and difficult always.

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.

The difference between people lies within their beliefs.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Let grace conduct thee to the paths of peace.

I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

words can never get at the truth.

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.

Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.