Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.

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.

Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as a last resort.

I negate this distance with / what it would be / to be shining you.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.