Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed that mood, and let the shape of the story flow from that.

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.

Be positive with every idea surrounding your dreams. Think about the possibility of what you plan to do and approach it with an optimistic action. Stay positively.

Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it's too late.

David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.