True enough. I say this all the time.Trez looked at his hands. “I didn’t ask for this.”“No one asks for life.” The executioner hiked iAm’s body up higher. “And sometimes they do not ask for death...

Whatever you do today, impacts your historicity.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

Ensure that your life stays in flux.

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.