Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

Não estatize meus sentimentos. Pra seu governo, o meu estado é independente.

No heart can be truly understood. Not even your own.

The weather gods are toying with us." - Dr. James Stagg

People see me as cute, but I'm so much more than that.

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

If God calls you, pick up the damn phone!

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.