Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance.

A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.

Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.

Science and technology were the only keys to opening the door to the future, and people approached science with the faith and sincerity of elementary school students.

Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.

He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.

How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY?

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

When you deal with somebody in the heat of battle, you see the best or the worst of them. So when you get through all that there is a great deal of respect.

Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

No word makes me happier than the word "daddy" when it's directed to me.

Oklahoma Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.