Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.

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.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.

At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music.

The popular Arab imagination is a pliant and inventive thing; it can explain any defeat. It is a compass that always points toward the Jew.

Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.