"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."

“I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said.”

“And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.”

“I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.”

“When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.”

“I have been in control of what Ive been doing, of the career Ive put together.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I remember her eyes. The eyes of Gutete Emerita.”

Source : Alfredo Jaar, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, Spain), Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (San Sebastián, Spain) (1998). “Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

“You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.”

“My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.”