Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

When I think about books, I touch my shelf.

Memories were like tomb paintings, thought the Major, the colors still vivid no matter how many layers of mud and sand time deposited. Scrape at them and they come up all red and blazing.

Your wishes and desires make clear who you are.

I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.

He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.