It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.