My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

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 would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

Make sure your beliefs match who you are: love.

I live below my means because it makes what I do seem less like a job and more like a passion.

All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

It's funny how money change a situation.

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

I will be as callous and uncaring as you can imagine, I have no interest in paying for your health care. I'd hate to see you get cancer, but that's your problem, not mine.