Give yourself entirely to God enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family with a man or with a friend and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

My parents are artists in their world in the world of modern artists you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

My Botswana books are positive and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.

I don't feel finally that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

Whether one believes or not religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive it remains vital inspiring great good and sometimes great evil.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.