How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?

They can do all because they think they can.

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Fortune sides with he who dares

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

Love conquers all things.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

Support your libraries... or else!

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.

When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.

Life before toilet paper was not worth living.