To me, the only reason for guns in civilian hands is for sporting purposes.

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.

We must get rid of all the guns.

We would like to see, in the future, what we will probably call needs-based licensing of all weapons. ...Where it would make it much more difficult for anybody to be able to purchase handguns.

Halfway measures are not enough.

It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime.

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Maybe sometimes it takes more courage not to fight.-Makino

I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all.

Most of us could stop doing something that's hindering our passion for Jesus and effectiveness in following him.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

We stand before God's wonder and yet we are disinterested and bored. This should not be.