Every poet — every storyteller — requires motivation.

Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?”“It’s the only way we know how to love.

Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

Faith alone is never enough. You must follow up with the right effective plan and strategic action.

I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.

I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way to know if a sentence really works, without clunks or cul-de-sac clauses.

The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.