You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.

You can live forever for me.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us.

My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret.

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.