I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.