Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.

Seattle is not an overly friendly city. It is a civil city, but not altogether friendly. People from outside mistake the civility for friendliness. Seattle is full of people who have their own lives to live. They won't waste their time being friendly. But they are civil.

I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.

Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.

When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent.

Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.

Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.