"The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting."

“It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.”

“He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.”

“Supply and demand regulate architectural form.”

“You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.”

“What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.”

“If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago.”

“Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.”

Source : "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

“Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.”