America has been another name for opportunity.

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

Should she slam his head into the bar or toss her beer on him? Damn shame to waste good beer.

Prestidigitation? You've got to be joking. No one says that.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

Well, I lost my virginity in a car. But it wasn't a very nice one.

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.

Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.