Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

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.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs

Wherever you go, there you are. You would just have different problems. Are the problems you have now so bad that any other problems would be better?

If you're confused about what to do, it's a sign that your enemy is winning.

The cure for grief is motion.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.