Digging deep inside you as a writer will damn near kill you at times. But in the end, your words will be true and undeniable for the reader, and that is all that ever really matters in writing.

Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It’s an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.

The same things that make you unique in this world, make you a target for the archers consumed by fear and jealousy.

... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort.

What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

I've always been fond of acoustic music.

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

Admire? No, I have never said that. I still appreciate Angela Merkel as a very professional and open person.