I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone; In fact each child should try and have some parents of its own.

Keep your brain active. Engage your brain. Your brain is the most fantastic machine ever created, and it needs to be exercised.

I know a girl, she been married so many times, she got rice marks all over her face

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.