I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

Justin Cronin

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.

Mitt Romney

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.

Patty Murray

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

Malcolm X

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

John Henry Newman

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

Terry Eagleton

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

Andrea Dworkin

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

Satchel Paige

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.

Ronald Reagan

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Charles de Gaulle