Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.

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.

As long as he does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance.

I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

I just try to work with what I'm given and make it the best I can.

History is the seed bed of the future.

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.

Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

Guru is not on the way to Krishna, Guru is 'the way' to Krishna.

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.