“Let me tell you, you can paint pictures and get people indicted for just about anything.”

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They’re making a mistake.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

There’s only one thing i know for certain anymore.” he turned, his eyes a clear black. “that i would do anything for you, even if it means going against mu instincts or my very nature. I would lay down everything i possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn’t love, it’s the best i have.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else.

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.