You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

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.

Ask me if I sparkle and I’ll kill you where you stand.” (Bones)

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.

My psychiatrist said I had charisma so at least I'm certified

Everything has changed, and nothing has altered. Oh, what a fate.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?

All I wanted to do was to improve, to keep getting better.

I like my father being the boss in my life