A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."

The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror... so today I vetoed it.

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!