Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

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.

I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

As you express joy you draw it out of those you meet creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express the more joy you experience.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.

The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks.

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

My wife's gotten really lazy, or as she calls it, 'pregnant.'

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.