If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".

The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night.

Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.