What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

Let us listen to the voices of our Forebears ... In the smoky cabin, souls that wish us well are murmuring.

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

Then, only then would she realize that the life that she created will extinguish with nothing to offer but the sorrow that she harvested in our souls and the holes that she dug in our hearts.

Dear Karma, I really hate you right now, you made your point.

You want a blood relative to lead your army? Get Marcie. She likes ordering people around. She'll be a natural.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

As my own boss, I have the opportunity to get to work with great brands, like Old Navy, and I get to style some looks together that people can actually buy and afford.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

I hate that man Obama more than any man I've ever met, more than any man who ever lived.