How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.