The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder

Lew Wallace

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Blaise Pascal

A full lifer doesn't commit to anyone until they've committed to her

Deanna Kizis

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

William Landay

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

George Orwell

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

John Pearson

In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves

William Shakespeare

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.

Mary Daly

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

Ralph Cudworth

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Carol Moseley Braun

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle