"The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces."

“Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath”

“The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else”

Source : Roberto Tinoco Duran, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Gustavo Pérez Firmat (1987). “Triple Crown: Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban-American Poetry”, Bilingual Review Press

“Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.”

“If you weren’t pretty, it wouldn’t matter what you said or didn’t say. That’s why you’re getting this attention.”

“[John] Adams's letters to [his wife] Abigail are wonderful. In his letters, he is loving, humorous, preachy, learned, and saucy. He speaks to her with almost complete abandon, revealing all of his sensuous and vulnerable nature.”

“I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and cold, dirty and clean. The great cycles-round and round-beginning and end-Alpha and Omega, amen.”

“When you look at how American national freight systems are connected, it's a bit of a patchwork. When you look at how even road systems and rail systems work across state lines, it's a bit of a patchwork.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com

“I think from an economics point of view, it is important that the money that is spent for health care is well spent - what is the cost-effectiveness of the money that is used? - because if the money is well spent, many people benefit from the system, and it is also a good market for finding employment. I do not see a reason why we should limit ourselves when it comes to very qualified and humane employment opportunities if there is no waste and if there is medical need.”