A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.

From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

To be famous and broke is hard.

Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.