It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

You have to live to really know things, my love

The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

They lay together in a sheltered place among the ruins of Brasilia while deathbeams from Chinese EMVs played like blue searchlights on broken ceramic walls.

... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come

The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.

... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.