When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.

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.

My prayer is to seek, find and serve God.

Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

I really, really want to produce. That's the top of my to-do list.

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.

One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions.

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.