There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

You have to live to really know things, my love

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

They lay together in a sheltered place among the ruins of Brasilia while deathbeams from Chinese EMVs played like blue searchlights on broken ceramic walls.

... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come

The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.

... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

Pictures and words are wholly inadequate to understand the complex creations and beauty of our world.

Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place.

I conduct faster so you can see my beat.

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.

The reward is in the risk.

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.