It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

That's all I want- to do no harm.

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.