It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

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.

The truth has no agenda.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!

On the whole I feel that life has treated me rather well, but I sometimes wonder how well have I treated life.

Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.