We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.

If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else.

Some things are worse than death... If a man lives, he must still live with himself.

Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.

I hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

Globalization is a fact of economic life

The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.

There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.

It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.