I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.

How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

There is no country but the heart.