We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

Life goes on. And so does death.

Four inch nails is more like it!

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

Christ within us, the hope of glory.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.