I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.

I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready it goes on because it’s 11:30.

She wore her pain like lingerie, only who loved her enough, got to see it.

Don't stay too long in the shame-filled grounds of relapse. Fertile soil awaits your return and your recoverying.

Satan wants to cripple me and then blame me for limping.

It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in a dream and we hear the apocalyptic horsemen in the air.

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture.

I wish I could find words to explain what this kind of cold is like- the cold that has somehow gotten in underneath your skin and is getting colder and colder inside you.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.