In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

Our souls need music, Robert, as our bodies need touch.

In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

You can have a lot of fun with rhinos

From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

Some of the best stuff can be written out of dire times

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.