If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.
For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
One must not be shy where language is concerned.
If I could just hope to have a major talent, then I would rather have it in music than in any other field.
It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.
I rang the bell of this small bed-and breakfast place, whereupon a lady appeared at an outside window. "What do you want?", she asked. "I want to stay here", I replied. "Well, stay there then", she said and closed the window.