Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that the religious community is being oppressed and persecuted is something that every single person in the world who has any religious faith and religious feeling for - for people who have faith should speak up.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each.