The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

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.

Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.

It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

If you're a good marketing person, you have to be a little crazy.

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

I wrote my 1st song at age 11. I haven't stopped since!

The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.