It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all.

To love the creations of the Earth is to worship the Being who created them.

Law is for everyone, justice is for few.

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

All she wanted was sax.

Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more.

The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying.

The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.