It was deeper than some boy thinking she was cute. It was more like she was food and he was hungry. It was as if Mars needed her to survive.

Jana looked beyond him and saw Mars. She ate Mars for breakfast with her eyes.

Prosperity of wicked men runs like a torrent past, and soon is spent.

America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the "be all and end all".

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Color is something we see with our eyes, but love is something we see with our heart.

This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.