Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted.

As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence

freedom is nothing but the distancebetween the hunter and the hunted

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees.

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.

I kind of knew that there were a lot of people that didn't go to church and normally wouldn't listen to people, but they would come and listen to me talk.

Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them.

We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.

It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.