Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach.

Sometimes I wanted to go to sleep and not wake up. I’d lie awake in bed, wondering, wishing, hoping that I’d close my eyes and then I just … wouldn’t open them ever again.

Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality.

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.

You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

It does seem quite ironic to me that the very people who clearly have made no attempt to think for themselves are always the most vocal in demanding respect for their "ideas".