I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

To be powerful, a kiss should make a journey, be its own story--begin with hesitation, move to realization, then melt into bliss.

If you are waiting to gain power to do something

This is the one and onlyfirmament

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when it's gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Your ecstasy is a movement towards the height and your meditation is a movement towards the depth. And once you have both, your life becomes a celebration.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.