Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

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.

It’s rather like the economic crash some years ago, many were impacted by it and their vibrational output slowed right down. They believed in the crash so were vacuumed in to it!

You can become even a co-creator of this universe... an assurance coming from the Ancient Wisdom

What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive.

I'm up here in this womb, I'm looking all around. We'll, I'm looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.

I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit, I told my parents I had future plans to enter the priesthood.

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.

I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.

We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.