when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

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.

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

I suddenly realise that it doesn't matter how far I go, or how lost I am, or how lonely I feel. I fit in here. I always will.That's how I know I'm home.

To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.

God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

People don't buy with their head but with their heart. The heart is closer to the wallet than the head.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.