Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

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.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going

We cannot alter other people, or their lives, or their destinies, by offering them sweets to take away the bitter taste, any more than they can alter us.

Birthday is special day of one's life

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

I know I've got to learn to believe in myself.

I really believe the purpose of Scripture is to give us this authoritative handbook.

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

After a grueling leg workout nothing feels better than a slow, deep massage on your quads.

I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.