No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

She said, 'People are like stars, but it's stories that turn us into constellations. If we don't tell our stories, we burn alone in the dark.

The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders, But I am no wolf by blood.

I don't like to think of myself as a 'virgin'. I prefer to think of myself as 'sexually incomplete'. You know. Like I haven't finished the course yet.

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

There is nothing more powerful as attitude.

Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.