The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

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.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

It is a smile of a baby that makes life worth living.

I walked across a bridge that doesn't exist. And after that, being scared just didn't seem so important anymore.

We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.

Mobs have passions, not brains.

I'm very, very low-key in general.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand,not the least thing,everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be forseen.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

I am a Christian. I know I am a Christian, knowing that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.