I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

People don't really understand but having people stare and point and take pictures even if it is in a positive framework is quite isolating there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit you know freakish.

Lapped in poetry wrapped in the picturesque armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

For me Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life parenting and pop culture then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development who love good music good books good pictures good plays good company good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music and you provide the silence.