writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

They suffered with his death and she - she suffered with their reaction to it.

What is your wildest dream?

In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average.

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.

Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.