The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

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.

No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.

In many cases, the authorities can't really prove if the person is in danger or not, because they can't send a person to Afghanistan to investigate each and every case.

I got a Walkman, I had the 'Footloose' soundtrack and I danced to it constantly.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.

The American's head are on their chins a little bit at the moment

Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.