The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.

being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.

I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.

Faith to challenge equals recovery. When you learn to challenge your situation God speaks.

When it comes to Jews, you have a two-thousand-year memory, but when it comes to us Palestinians, you have a sixty-year amnesia.

I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.""How can you be sure?""Because she'd do the same for you.

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

And her joy was nearly like sorrow.

What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.

The language Mr. Obama uses is refreshingly different from that of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.