“The cavalry ain't coming. You've got to do this yourself.”

“The cavalry ain't coming. You have to do it yourself.”

“Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.”

“Do not ask questions until you have trained yourself not to know the answers.”

“I'm here to tell you, there ain't much forgiveness in that old-time religion. That particular savior was a mean son of a bitch. If you sinned, honey, he was going to get you, no doubt about it.”

“Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.”

“In 1933, it was in Franklin Roosevelt's political interest to tell Americans the greatest danger was "fear itself." Seventy years later, it was in George W. Bush's political interest to do the opposite: The White House got the support it needed for invading Iraq by stoking public fears of terrorism and connecting those fears to Iraq.”