Here, ” he said, “I place the man I was aside the man I am now. And we have not the same hope nor thought, yet are one continuous breath from the body of I, Akiyama Akio.

Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her country.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.

Live in the moment that you are in.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that, people tend to go there.

And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.