Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving.

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.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

In America, a pedestrian is someone who has just parked their car.

If you want to prosper, prosper God.

It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living... Music is essential for my life.

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil!

It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality.

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

The sight of stars makes me dream.