It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.

The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.

Her memories were beads jumbled loose in a box, unstrung.

Commit yourself to something you have a passion for.

I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.

It is not chic to be too chic.

I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.

I am not going to let anyone into America who is not vetted, who we do not have confidence in. But I am not going to slam the door on women and children.

Boxing is the gift I have been given for whatever reason and I'd love to honour God in everything I do.

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!

The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.