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"Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it."
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"As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead."

"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."

"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."

"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
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"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."


"I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old."


"I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further."


"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."


"I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good."


"The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try."
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