I dont want to call it a conspiracy to ignore the role of the Blacks, both above and below the Mason-Dixon Line, but it was definitely a tendency that began around 1910

The best leaders collect information widely, listen to everybody, and then decide by themselves.

The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

she had experienced something beautiful, and he had failed to experience it with her. The two ways in which their memories reacted to the evening storm sharply delimit love and non-love.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

There was enough ice.So I thought. For my drink.When I used it all, I cut her heart out and used it instead.I never ran out of ice that night.

It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.

People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.

I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.

There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much.

Don't follow me, I'm lost.