Life involves a lot of unknowns.

once it's jam, it can't be strawberries anymore.

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.

Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer... and we are his chosen people.

All men die, but not all men really live.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

Falling in love is a beautiful wonder.

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

It's weird not to be weird.

confidence is a choice ... to act, or to do, or to decide.

Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.