What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.

Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which was religion.

I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

SOVEREIGNTYSovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri)

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me. Funny, but when you're near me I'm in the mood for love.

Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins.

There's a certain satisfaction in a little bit of pain.

Fear him, whom you hate.

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.