It's an issue that Democrats and Republicans seem to come together on, the over-influence of money in politics and in power.

Power cedes nothing without a demand.

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do 'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?' Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape's ferocious, anguished face. 'If you insist.

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.