"If you don't shut up, how can I answer your questions!"

“Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel.”

“Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.”

Source : Rowan Williams (1995). “A Ray of Darkness”, p.121, Cowley Publications

“It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.”

“The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.”

“At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.”

“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”

“A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.”