The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

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.

I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

The artist should always be the student.

I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.

Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.

It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

I love living with animals. And my children love animals. I love walking around and being with the horses. But the deer? They're naughty.

It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.