There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.

If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.