I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.

If you work outdoors be passive, go with the weather. This may mean two hours sheltering from a downpour, followed by a wonderful burst of sunlight and a rainbow.

My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

one spoonful hopeone handful wooden fireone feet soilone glass of waterone man high sky one last breath in smile

Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married.

Briefer is better, so learn to write tight

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya.

Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally.

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.