Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

Everything not forbidden is compulsory

Breathing became a painful chore. Her lips turned down while her warm fingers caressed my cheek. That touch typically brought me to my knees, but now it cut me

Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.

I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.

If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

My mom ate every piece of butter in the Midwest, she lived till she was 90. And my dad, he smoked, he drank - we finally just had to kill him.

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.

Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music.