"Early readers assumed the Book of Mormon people ranged up and down North and South America from upstate New York to Chili. A close reading of the text reveals it cannot sustain such an expansive geography."

“I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.”

“It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.”

Source : "Openly-Gay Congresswoman Proposes New Marriage Act". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 18, 2011.

“One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.”

Source : "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

“Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.”

“The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.”

Source : "Sam Shepard opens up". interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

“I've never been a passive person. I've always felt that, if you think something should be changed, it's your responsibility to actively pursue that change.”

“Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.”

“That Indians are lawless people, I would change that because it's probably the most harmful stereotype.”