I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.
Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.