Freedom

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

We inhabit a universe from which we're trying to escape.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him.

I never really liked cities. The countryside was much good enough for anybody.

Others believe as I do, but their beliefs do not interest me, just as mine may not interest them.

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself.

Art is the Daughter of Freedom.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

In my dreams, I run like a gazelle.

I write because I have to build a territory where I can be myself.

The extensive campaign of terror against anyone capable of a clear thought—terror compounded by fear—is costing us our secrets.

The life that is my own! I live it. The life that is dark or bright or good or bad or strange or common, I live it.

To walk in the smallest space, this is our only form of resistance.

In maximum freedom, the autistic person hardly moves a finger. Stillness is his motion.

Freedom is the great and beautiful fruit of all human emotions.