Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

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.

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.

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 always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

There is more to a soul than what others see

Turn your wound into wisdom, then help people to find true freedom.

How could I want one thing so much and its exact opposite at the same time?

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.

One day, someone will get too close to the television, and I will pull them into this hell with me.