I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.

The Kennedys formed a Kennedy party.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction.

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

This is a typical liberal trick, by the way: Stack the deck so the whole thing fails leaving only one option, the government to go in to save the day.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.