These young people are going to change the world.

Family is more important than anything.

Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.

Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn't appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff?

Kids are important. The most important thing.

My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python.

People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.

Come meet my dog.""What's the dog's name?""Justice.""Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

They'll want to kill the crazies first. Big fish eat little fish -- always have, always will.

Insanity is not a fit topic for high-school children.

Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

A dove will never be found in a burning tree and love will never be found in a heart that won't forgive.

I think so muchmay be it never endswhen this night endsthere's another at handI sleep with oneand wake with onewith everything else onthis life goes on.

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

It's only the losers named Dave that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think. They're named Dave.

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.