The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

Anna gave her that disjointed look with which so many people regarded Hannah, as if they has fallen too many words behind to ever catch up.

Me? Books and cleverness? There are more important things in life. Friendship, and bravery, and Harry, just be careful.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

Best players I played with? Striker wise, well, I had a great record with Emile Heskey - he would be one of my favourite partnerships because we were so different and worked together so well.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.