John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt...they work together.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them

Fear is a fickle friend who will loyally stand by your side as long as you allow it to diminish you.

The best opportunities to be nice to others come in the face of adversity. Kindness wins. Reciprocity rules. NetworkEtiquette.net

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.