I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.

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.

One foe you must conquer in your quest to cross over to he other side is fear

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

Fighting is life... Are you a person who gives up or are you a person who's going to fight?

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience? V: I beg your pardon?