A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Every one of our thoughts needs freedom and space in order to bloom and express beauty.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

How clumsily we love this world:looking into that vast darkness, waiting for the telescopeto send down unseen colors of light.

Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!

Man without mysticism is a monster.