...like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of that morning could just as well have cast him the other way.

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.

Something's been guiding me around throughout my life.

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.