Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

Its not about earning a paycheck, its about doing something good that you believe in.

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.

I am a writer, I write what I feel and what like.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

C'mon, let's get real, real gone.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase - 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.

The rains tumble down in the sky, Young swallows have learned how to fly, The leaves that were green are no longer so green, And it looks like the summer is over.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.