Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

The bigger the person, the more their actions affect the world. If they live, perhaps they will learn that""And if everyone dies, no one learns anything

It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

I feel sexy in my jeans and wearing my boyfriend's T-shirt.

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.

I've been living for 17 years, and I've noticed human relations is the most difficult thing to understand.