You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.