You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed to exist in a hazily recalled past, to have been left behind long ago.

It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.""What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

We have 11 million people in this country that need a pathway to citizenship.

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

Women are the guardians of morality.

The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.

I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.