People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.

Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.

You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting.

A person's either responsible for themselves or we're all responsible for each other.

I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.

It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political.

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.