My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

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.

i swallowed the syllables of your nameand i was full.

It was then that I realized I wasn't afraid to lose my life

I love doing impersonations of people.

I have one of the great temperaments.

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.

I try to do yoga. I really enjoy stretching and having a nice yoga class or taking a run on the beach. I'm not a big fan of the gym. I try to be out as much as possible.

When I started, (players) were making $4,000. Now, they don't get out of bed and they already make $10,000.

We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.

Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.