Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Like all Americans, I will never forget where I was the morning of the 9/11 attacks.

Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

I smiled, danced and cried my way out.

If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.