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.

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.

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

I am a world of uncertainties disguised as a girl.

I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not there, what you see is the memory of what once was, once upon a time.

Every human is born of collusion. We come into this world the result of a covenant. Sometimes made of love. Sometimes of circumstance. But almost always made in secret.

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.