Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.
You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, I will not be silenced.
I’ll flush a copy of my bill down the toilet. You should be getting it in a couple of days.
If the only way I can make myself look good is to criticize you, something is seriously wrong with me.
I would not ask anyone to vote for me based on my last name. I am certainly not campaigning to be president because my last name is Clinton.
He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.