While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.

If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.

Artificially to incite hatred is not only supererogatory in politics and foreign relations, it is also positively harmful.

Sacred is greater than science.

The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate, , , The obliteration of memory.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

All true wealth is biological.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Regret is a form of punishment itself.

Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction.

It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.