"This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?"

“I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.”

“If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 26, 2013

“My husband is the mayor. He has a lot of advisors. He has many advisors. Trust me. I'm not always the last one to state my opinion to him. And he does not always take my opinion. I think it's totally fair for any - in any couple, we just assume that people are speaking to their spouse. This is no different. In this day and age, I think we're going to see more couples like us. You know, couples who work together. I'm a volunteer, but I take this work very seriously and I want to help my husband in any way I can.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

“The People adore authority.”

Source : Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.32, Courier Corporation

“It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.”

“I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.”

“There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.”

“If there were any people safe to criticize, they'd be politicians and child molesters, doncha think?”