"It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost."

“It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.”

Source : Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.216, Penguin

“I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.”

“During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street and Corporate America. The United States has become ungovernable, unfixable, and, therefore, unsustainable economically, politically, militarily, and environmentally. It has evolved into the wealthiest, most powerful, most materialistic, most racist, most militaristic, most violent empire of all times.”

Source : "Thomas H. Naylor on Leviathan, Secession and Vermont's Small Nation Dream". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. May 13, 2012.

“The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper.And it remains on paper.”

Source : "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator". Book by Edwin Lefèvre. Chapter XXI, p. 257, 1923.

“Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.”

Source : H. L. A. Hart (1983). “Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy”, p.77, OUP Oxford

“I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical”

“It is my belief that we need a new transnational sustaining 'myth' that can impart value and respect. It is my further belief that we are coming to see our universe and life as creative, without a directing agency. Meaning emerges with life. If this view becomes widespread, it has the promise to become the sustaining myth we need to sustain in turn an emerging global civilization.”

“A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.”