You have to simplify - there is no other way to reach a mass audience. And you have to feed them evidence of their own success to keep them motivated.

No question that the spotlight on Darfur has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared. And that's deeply problematic, because it hasn't disappeared because Darfur has been solved.

Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.

o this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of.

Be careful when rising to the top. Be more careful when you get there. The higher you go, the riskier it gets. Be careful. Be very careful.

Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.

Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.

When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.

New York vintage is too expensive!

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.