People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

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.

Everything had changed, and maybe she couldn’t keep up with it, but she still was good at making people regret they had ever crossed her way.

The Scarehouse is like Turkey Soap. The Girl House is better as a film!

I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.

When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

I think I say things nicely and my whole goal is to be understood and that includes by people who don't understand me.

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.

In me, speaking psychologically, there is always an ongoing struggle between my enormously self-regarding, almost delusionally aspirational, Napoleonic personality and a marginalized one.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.