Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?

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.

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

Religion and slavery are incompatible.

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

I have always loved animals since I was very young.

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!