History works itself out in the living.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.

I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

One of the things I would love to do is Axe Cop, which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in Axe Cop someday. I would also love to be in a Western.

A lack of love is the cause for most problems in life, when love is missing, nothing can flourish, only pain thrives.

Pursuing a God-ordained passion, no matter how crazy it seems, is the most responsible thing you can do.

You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!

Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!