There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

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.

There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.

The most tragic thing about the future is that it may not come into being!

Happiness is a conscious choice we make for ourselves. It has to come from within.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

A friend is someone with whom I can reveal many parts of me, even those I am meeting for the first time.

I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.

I've never dated. I can say this honestly: I don't know what it's like to date. But also, how am I going to date? I'm not in one state long enough.