Talk Quotes

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

I write what I can’t say. I weep for these emotions.

There’s 3 types of fans. There’s the ones that scream, the ones that want to talk to you and the ones that don’t speak at all.

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

Can I doubt the shape of the earth? Can I judge a minute for lasting sixty seconds, a day for being grey or cold and leaves for falling from trees? Can I speak too loud when I am angry or stay quiet when I disagree? Can I forget about the norms and make some of my own?

I have always cared about the Indian Rhinos & am speaking up for these mighty beings.

You can’t make a record if you ain’t got nothin’ to say.

I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters – people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them – not one – stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

The world responds to those who ask.

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world’s history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.