Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

The word is the beginning and silence the end. Between word and silence, we exist.

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Necessity is our quickest excuse.

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

History is the teacher of life

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

Sexuality is pushed back more and more and people try to replace what they've lost with other forms of excitement.