I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

See, that why I ain’t go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want’a talk to God, well I say, ‘howdy-howdy, God,’ and we jaw fer a bit.’ - Jimmy ‘Diamond’ Skinner

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.