Writing is making sense of life.

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.

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.

Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Live your life so you don´t have to have any regrets when you throw your 70 year old birthday party

I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.

I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.

Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.

If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me.