That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.

A dream is a miracle turned inside out!

The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

I don't really like the limelight.

Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.

How is it that you live, and what is it you do?