Men have enslaved each other since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it.

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.

My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out.

Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.