We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.

There is a small, but important, difference between peeing in the pool, and peeing into the pool.

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

Sometimes when I travel from climate to climate, my skin can change very drastically because I go from hot to cold. I get dry like everybody else - from planes.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.