Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

Those who think fate is against them have already crucified themselves. They have already decided what fate should do with them

When the universe presented unexpected gifts to the undeserving, how else were they to react, except with sheer paranoia?

Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

The Republicans proved they are not the party of 'no.' They're the party of 'f**k, no!'

When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.

He's going to audition for the Vienna Boys' Choir!

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

I’m unelectable in the District of Columbia.