Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Love and honesty don't mix.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

Envy is a buzz killer."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

If you cannot change your circumstances, then change your attitude.

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?

I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.