I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

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.

Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.

The best thing that life can offer is happiness. The best way to find happiness is through unconditional love.

Some people you can't be friends with, not when you've been something more.

Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.

Thus it is with proud silly people, who think themselves above everyone else, and are too proud to ask or take advice.

Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

What do you do when you’re living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You just keep doing what you’re doing.