America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy - and wont cross the street to vote in a national election.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

Acknowledging our heartache and our hardship is the first step in coping and dealing with it.

I miss you a lot. But what I miss even more is the person I become when I am with you. She is beautiful.

P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

Surfing's the source. Can change your life. Swear to god

It's the oasis," said the camel driver. "Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked. "Because we have to sleep.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.