Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it.

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

An emaciated gospel leads to emaciated worship

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

I think we all have a piece of wild in us that we want to protect. It was a very organic choice for me to support this organization [African Wildlife Foundation].