Writing is magic happening on paper

Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.

Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?

Then I looked out onto the horizon myself and realized that loss is the same wherever you go: overwhelming, inexorable, deafening. How resilient human beings are that we can learn slowly to carry on when we are left all alone, left to fill the void as bes

I was hungered and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger and ye took me in: I was naked and ye clothed me: I was sick and ye visited me: I was in prison and ye came unto me.

Silence is also a form of speaking.

These are the things you don’t say, even to someone you love.

Sometimes being given the elbow can turn out to be the best hand.

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I f

Something happened to you, they discovered, when you were given the unconditional love and trust of a child.You wanted to try to deserve it.

Small aim is a crime have great aim.

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.