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

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

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

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.

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.

... too much brooding, not enough doing.

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.

...who I am to talk? I dream of rain.

Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff

The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot.

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific.

The Bible is the voice of God in print.