I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first conversation of my life that concerned a book, and 'the life of the mind' - and now, such subjects have become my life.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

I love insult, it's always honest.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.