Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are captives of darkness

my own chocolate center has filled up with poison, the roses he gave me all twisted black

In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.

Under President Obama we've lost control of things that we used to have control over.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.