They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?

Better to be dirty than dead.

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

Many a times a huge problem gets solved with a trivial move.

T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up like Newt Gingrich wants to do.

It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific.

Politics is a contact sport.

The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.