The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Novels are just very, very, very long lies. That is to say, you’ve got to get your story straight!

Most of our waking life is make believe. If there was a way to record every dream that crosses our minds, the true nature of humans would be laid bare

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

Her giggles were light in my darkness.

You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters."~Tanela Hicks

Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.

The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

Beating drums while doing a kindness to somone is a very ugly show of ego!

I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.