What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

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.

Memory of the knife will be gone when the flesh is gone.

Peace will be when you accept it in your heart.

Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics.

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably in the last half hour!

I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.

I find this corpse guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and I fine it $40.