The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

There's no great loss without some small gain.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.

It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.

I don’t want a whole dessert; let’s just get two spoons.

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.