Indignation is often the best defense.

No matter how offensive she's been to me, she continues to act as if she has some sort of God-given right to keep coming back for more favors.

I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.

What's most interesting about some books is the question: How did this crap ever get published?

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

It's just as important to let go and let somebody do what they're best at and other times, I'm very determined to get exactly what I know we need. It's that balance.

I do sense that the financial system is under the gun. In order to keep our system and economies moving globally, there's the need to extend new money.

Money has much more power down the ballot.

I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.

You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US banking system is insolvent.