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.

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

Downstream is always someone else's up.

There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.