Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.

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.

Only positive thoughts can inspire you to positive actions.

Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.

Here is a list for you - things I want to do with you:Love youLaughMake love with youLaughCook with youEat youLove youLaughDrink great wineLove you, always.

When you stop expecting miracles, life is the miracle.

Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.

If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.