Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.
Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.
A man on the run finds compassion or loveor even pretended innocence his greatest source of danger.
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and chang...
People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no...
You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.
It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.
Over all this lay Hoppie's dictum: First with the head and then with the heart. Winning was something you worked at intellectually, emotion clouds the mind and is its natural enemy. This made for a lo...
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert.
Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man.
You couldn't lose, you was playing Mozart
Without courage, there is no luck and no hope. He who dares, wins.
Shoulder
It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go peste...
How I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.
The imagination is always the best torturer.
The thing about fires most people don’t realise is the noise. It’s deafening so even if you shout, you can’t be heard three feet away. You can never quite get used to the fury of it, it’s like a might...
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