We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

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.

Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.

Don’t you have dragons to fight so that you started saving girls who don’t need it?

How long is forever?Sometimes just one second

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

I've been thinking Hobbes" "On a weekend?" "Well, it wasn't on purpose

I guess the biggest issue my husband and I are going to have is how do we raise the baby... because he's Jewish and I'm Protestant and the baby's father is Catholic.

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.