Passion is never enough neither is skill.

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.

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

We will have a massive, massive tax increase under Hillary Clinton's plan.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it.

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

I don't believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor.

I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.