The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Hot from hell. Caesar's spirit raging in revenge. Cry, havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself.

I thought Bones looked like a little slice of heaven, but you're the whole cake, aren't you, sugar?

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.

When I write, I love finding connections between ideas. When the connections are plentiful and strong, then I know it's a pretty good subject to write about.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.