Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.

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.

It was like the Justice League of Super Heroes but instead it was the Justice League of Hot Guys.

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.

...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.