Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

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.

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

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.

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

Every new morning brings new mercy, new love and new grace.

The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.