If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

We had the experience but missed the meaning.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.