I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

There are so many cities in every single city.

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?