“You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he readsin particular, what he likes and what he disdainsas from what he writes himself.”

“Guantnamo Bay's motto: 'Safe, humane, legal, transparent detention.' Four adjectives describing one sick joke.”

“You don't know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you acquire a facial scar. On the plus side, it's so situated as to make me look tough and worldly. On the downside, I'm never kissing...”

“I don't often agree with me either; there's much, in fact, with which I disagree. But that's probably because I'm so dashed ingenious that I haven't a clue what I'm saying.”

“You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself.”

“Guantánamo Bay's motto: 'Safe, humane, legal, transparent detention.' Four adjectives describing one sick joke.”

“Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.”

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”

“I live to inspire, not start the fire.”

“Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.”

“That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.”

“Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.”

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”