Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

Fear has a smell, as love does.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.