When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

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.

You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.

My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins.

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.

I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.

A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.