"The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies."

“Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?”

“Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.”

“If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?”

“The future will be resplendent, and an untold number of souls will be saved, but on one condition: that your sons be devoted to the Blessed Virgin.”

“Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.”

Source : "Climate Talks or Wealth Redistribution Talks?" by Nicolas Loris, www.dailysignal.com. November 19, 2010.

“I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.”

Source : "F. Lee Bailey looks back on his legal career". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2000.

“Marijuana addiction is a serious problem”

“We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names.”