Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

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 there was one thing I had learned. . . it was that politics was a damn dirty business.

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.

I wish stories were kinder to their characters, " Maddie said. "But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about.

We fight because we fail to understand why really we fight

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Just because you are famous and rich doesn't make you successful.

I like to have fun. I have never done anything well in my entire life that I didn't enjoy.

Obviously, the opinions that are most accurate are the ones that are closest to you - your crew, your friends, your family. Those people know who you are, and that's accurate.

The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.