You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.

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.

Where there's a will, there's a way." Yeah, better hope you get left tons of money.

I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

Those who don't fight evil hate those who do; and those who don't fight real evils make up little evils

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

Average is Your Enemy.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.