From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A desert is a place without expectation.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

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.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it forever.

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You dont have to throw the past away.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldn't like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.

Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.

Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.

I can make men follow me to hell.

I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.

People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

We all want to make money.

Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

When I leave the car park at Melwood, I try and become a completely different person. I try to get away from it. You have got to. Otherwise you end up like Jamie Carragher - obsessed!

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.