I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

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.

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.

Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

You may not find the opportunity to succeed, but you can always find the opportunity to serve. Then serve to succeed.

You two are bound to one another. You always have been … and you can't run away from what you are. No matter where you go, your feelings for her are going to follow you.

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

The older I get, the faster I was.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

I just feel like estrogen is bad hormones, and seen as shameful.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

Spirit and body, when joined together, become a living soul of supernal worth.

Together, we’ll beat autism.