I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

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.

Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.

Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

O SON OF MAN! I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.

I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

It was a love of perpetual flight.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.

The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.