A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in this world...

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Geography is destiny.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

One moment now may give us moreThan fifty years of reason

Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.

I think that white people were, no question, the creators of what we call white America.

The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain.

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

The past is dead, and has no resurrection.

Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.