Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

I love my home. It's the only thing I really spend money on. I don't really spend a lot of money on anything else. No fancy cars. No designer clothes.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

What you receive is directly connected to what you believe

I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.