I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

You know what it's like, " said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?

Set example to your children, in speech and in conduct.

The focus of innovations and investments need to shift from slogging innovations like phone and, drone type innovations to solve real problems that are killing the inhabitants of the planet.

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

I'm a lover not a fighter. But when I have to fight, I fight to win. There cannot be another outcome.

To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.

If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

If you don't love your work, it's hard to love your life.