“It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.”

“Or maybe I am justoutside enough,being the footstool observing from the corner,that I have a view of reality.”

“Wiseman participates, others are just observers”

“We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.”

“Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.”

“great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this aft...”

“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”

“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on ...”