A hostage?""They used the word slave, but isnt' it the same thing? Isn't that what you'd call it if someone stole me and put me in a house and wouldn't let me leave? Isn't it?

Fate was a train that didn't stop until it reached its final destination.

Fate. Sounds romantic.”“You must not know anything about mythology, then, Mr. McQueen. In all the old myths, the Fates were the villains.

Being happy is the best revenge.

Love and Divinity are both gifts from Nature, fraught with the highest bliss.

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.

A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.

It's important that we remind the American people of what they already know about Obamacare - that the promises that were made were all broken.

April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.