Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lead to the ruin of one of the few truly good men I ever met.

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.

And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?

Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us.

My race is not a better race, it is simply a different race.

[Y]ou cannot determine either the truth or the right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions.

Politics is cyclical.

A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

The enemy can steal your song.

We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

Activity does not necessarily mean life.