"Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations."

“We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

“Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.”

“All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”

Source : "Twenty-four Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981-1983". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1984.

“Tate grabbed me, hugging me so hard, I knew I'd have bruises. He was probably unaware of it, not having had much time to get used to his new strength. I pushed at him, "Tate...you're squeezing me too hard." He let go of me so fast I almost staggered. "Oh Christ, I can't do anything right!”

“I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so we can be where we are, and two, to just educate the newer generation. I'm being educated by all these films ['Race' and 'Selma'] and the things I've had the opportunity to be a part of, and kids even younger than me are being educated, too. It's important to make sure those stories never die.”

“You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.”

Source : Lu Xun (2014). “Selected Essays of Master Lu Xun”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

“Maybe I think too much for my own good.”

“Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.”