I enjoy small towns, I've got my friends there. I have friends in L.A. too, but I'm not much on traffic.

The hardest thing for me is crying. Where I'm from, it's been instilled in me since I was little that men don't cry. Thank God for teardrops and menthol.

I love driving, but I like driving on a two lane road where you can drive for hours and not see anybody.

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

I was an international studies major.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.

our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

Whoever tries to imitate me is lost.