Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

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.

You have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now, you can drown in the stink, or turn it into compost and grow a garden.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleasantness of dwelling together in unity

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else

We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.

I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.

Balance is overrated.