"Republicans face unexpected challenges in coastal South amid shrinking white vote"

“I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.”

Source : Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

“Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.”

“An extraordinary dancer, whose blend of tautness and buoyancy is not only exciting but also suggestive of clarity and immediacy with which dance can communicate deep, conflicting emotions.”

“I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.47, The Overlook Press

“Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. … What makes me different from the ‘nazis’ are basically three things; unlike them I am not socialistic (not even on a national level), I am not materialistic and I believe in (the ancient Scandinavian!) democracy,”

“Democrats had a secret meeting in Reid's office on Halloween night at 6:15 and they hatched this plot, ... They said the only way they could get this investigation going was to do it in secret. They say they've been frustrated for a year and a half in getting this investigation into whether the administration twisted the intelligence and they're making no apologies whatsoever for it.”

“I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.”

“From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.”