When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

There are certain things I do not talk about.

But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.