I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

The writer is the midwife of understanding.

The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... in the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future.

And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.