I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.

Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.

Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.

After all these years, his best friend is malaria.Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep chill one night, a ministry of sweat the next. Calling him back to old battles.

There are some honorable politicians; and God bless them, there aren't many of them - but they're narcissistic. They need people to love them.

Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside.

The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.

I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

"The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on God's grace.

It's going to be unbelievable, you know. There's going to be a lot of people cheering for Mark McGwire and me. And, hey, we'll see how it goes.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.