We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious.

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.

Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.

For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.

Any place we can breathe, we can do Ninjutsu.

I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.

Do not think that your crying and complaints can force Jesus to become sentimental and then give Himself out so cheaply.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.