"A big question that we have is that we do not understand why the comfort of the few should override the comfort of the many."

“There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.”

“As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.”

“They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.”

“She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought.”

Source : Connie Brockway (2002). “The Bridal Season”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

“Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.”

“Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.”

“Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!”

“Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.”