I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.