Have you ever seen a world fall to its knees? Watch, and learn.

Defeat, if you survive it, should mean time for reflection.

Sister?” Jessie Kay scowled. “Do I really look like his sister? I clearly come from grade-A stock while his ancestors made a few poor choices along the way.

A man's library opens up his character to the world.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.

As a rich country, we can, in some sense, "afford" the war. But spending money on the war means that we are not spending money on other things that we could have spent the money on.

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.

I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.