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“In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms. If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the eighteenth century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis.”
Source : "That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right". Book by Stephen Halbrook, 1984.
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“I don't like talking about music.”
Source : "Fire in her belly" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2006. 
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“In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?”
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“The only time I know that something is true is the moment I discover it in the act of writing.”
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“He's so fat, he can be his own running mate.”
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“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
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“I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.”
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“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
Source : Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.6, Ballantine Books
