The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

An enduring belief in light rises above the darkness of night.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he's not afraid to go to dark places.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Awareness is empowering.

Accept change as a friend. And don't take yourself too seriously.