It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.

Peace be with you, " I said, and as I turned to resume my journey with Coyote, I added under my breath, "and asskicking be with me.

The answer to enemies who heal annoyingly fast is always, always decapitation. That is why swords will never go out of style.

If you want to see beauty, look with love and appreciation and you will find it.

Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.

I feel so blessed to have had the chance to do this job [ U.S. Solicitor General] in this moment in our history. It's been an incredible thing.

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe I just couldn't hear it.

I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.

I sometimes say I am in a relationship with boxing.

Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil.

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.