Our job here is to defend freedom.

The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, ...

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.

The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.