I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

CINCINNATI MORGUE, AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY SERVICE SINCE 1966.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

She won't give him back his look.

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.