Already this sun was pouring its wrath into the blue Indian ocean where swordfish and marlin cruised like silver-blue attenuated warheads in their green-gold depths...

One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert plant bursting into life after the rain.

The breeze across the desert as the light died was so sweet she could almost drink it.

Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes.

Dawn raced like fire across the savanna.

Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.

Water was how the desert would bring everyone together. The antelope's daily prayer, weighing the mortal need of water with the mortal danger of obtaining it.

I have spent hours and hours watching elephants, and to come to understand what emotional creatures they are...it's not just a species facing extinction, it's massive individual suffering.

Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to keep from crying and her neck sore from forcing herself not to look down, not to look back.

Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.

The Aryan stands firm, one with God in his attitude to the world and its people.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.