Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.