In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

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.

We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Children make your life important.

I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I go to bed with men, not boys.

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?