Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

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.

While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light beats into heaven.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

You ultimately have to find out who you are inside and develop a set of values that are truly yourself, and then express them.