I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

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.

When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.

I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot.

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience.

Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.

All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.

Kindness is our religion.

The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.

It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.