Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.

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.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

We have to control our battery development and testing.

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

Places like Ministry of Sound are too druggie for me. Smaller, local places are where it's at for me.

High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.