A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?

My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love those writers, so I am happy to be considered a crime writer. That's what I consider myself.

In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

How about a kiss, Saumensch?

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.