Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

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.

Never be too confident or ndomdoubtful when everything is uncertain in this world.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.

I'm all soils west when the Earth lets go. I'm a thousand Julys.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

"thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events.