What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

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.

Don’t allow your crisis to become a crisis of faith.

It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body. If women's reproductive rights come under attack, I will be standing up for women.

That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.

I assumed that some of the gold bars I received were melted gold teeth.

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.

My best writing has always been in journals.