Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

A desert is a place without expectation.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Writing is making sense of life.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

It's not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it's your sadness that does it.

Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Your uniqueness is the greatest gift you will ever receive in life.

It is in the darkest hour that a star reveals its brightest light.

Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.