Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

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.

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.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

Once you deposit that money in your checking account, it becomes the bank’s money and you’re just another one of their creditors.

Don’t ever leave us again. Vaughn has been horrible. Like pre-Grace horrible.

The gods cared nothing for those they touched. Especially war gods.

Will smirked, clearly pleased at the effect he was having. "I've no idea. I lost consciousness about then. I was having a lovely dream about a young woman who had mislaid all her clothes.

Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

The emotions of the game do not change.

Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.