I love my friends and family but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone in silence eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

We gave up some of our country to the white men thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

One already feels like an anachronism writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.

What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.

And in my own life in my own small way I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

In every country and every age the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.