Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!

You were born original don't die a copy

Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself. Remember that.

Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy

Human skin hisses like a rattlesnake when it burns.

They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.