The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

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.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

The priceless gift of life, strength and time is our greatest wealth.

I urge you to be teachers so that you can join with children as the co-collaborators in a plot to build a little place of ecstasy and poetry and gentle joy

We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.

Once I can talk to people, I switch them over on my side.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

This is a dream for me, it really is, to be the leader of a staff going into the season.

The only way to win the war is to move people's hearts and minds.