So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

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.

The main element of true reconciliation is the public education system.

Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can’t MANHANDLE THEM!

If we can realize that life is always happening for us, not to us… game over, all the pain and suffering disappears.

If only falling in real life love were this easy. Take a big breath and open your eyes

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

There are some loony people in this world!

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.