He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

It is practical, but that doesn't mean it's right.

There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

If we don't figure out global warming, we're not going to be able to be here.

I didnt know I was mad about anything. I guess if the New York Times says I am, I must be.

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?