You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.

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.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

Demographics is destiny.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

One life is worth no more or less than any other

You can't create a work without being aware that it will change dependent upon the context or the society where it is developed or consumed.

I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.