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.

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.

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.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

All your heart’s desire will come true in due time.

The word “brand” has now taken an individualized and highly personalized shift toward how you are perceived in the minds of others.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

As we're growing closer to God, I ask people to decide when God wants them to stay planted exactly where they are.

I am a child of the digital revolution. So what I love about digital content is the quick turnover rate.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

You're just looking for the thing that makes this scene sort of imperative, why you have to know what changes by the end of the scene so you're really looking to find the essence of it.

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.