A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

A desert is a place without expectation.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.