There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

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 book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.

Most empty promises are a result of excitement.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure.

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

You just had to know where to look.

Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

I think that when people download the record they're kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it's really meant to be an immersive experience.