Until I have learned how to express myself as a human, I will not consider speaking as a god.

Monsters were one thing. She was used to monsters, she could deal with monsters. A noise in the darkness, with nothing attached to it, was another.

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

The true determining factor of our belief system is not what we're saying, but how we are living.

This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

International law in its counter-hegemonic uses is very important in any domain where issues of legitimacy are significant, but is rarely able to have a corresponding behavioural impact.

Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.