Women always cried. It was their last, best weapon. It made boyfriends apologize and husbands fold them in their arms. It made Daddy spend the extra money on the prom dress.

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

Your words hurt, Jazz. They hurt like cotton balls thrown in my direction.

She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.

I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

[Michael Flynn is] someone who has advocated for a much tighter ties with Russia and had raised some eyebrows in terms of some of the consorting that he did around Washington.

You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.