He lifted his eyes. They were the color of the deepest heart of hurricane clouds, deeper blue than the sky behind him.

He put his fist against his chest. “Burn, Maddygirl, ” he said. Then he turned and left her in the flickering gloom and thunder.

Was that what she meant? Why she cried? Because he was an animal afraid to leave its cage, no words to say what he thought, no thoughts but muddled mad stupid thoughts?

The event of history is hidden in time.

Healing is the result of clear thinking.

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

I've said time and again, I'm a pro-life candidate, I'll be a pro-life president.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.