"I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression."

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do."

"I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream."

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."

"Somebody's boring me. I think it's me."

"Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion."

"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

"[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine."

"Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair."

"You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck."

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

"Going, Like, Everybody"

"...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity."

"He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight."

"The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire."

"Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational."

"When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see."

"I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it."

"The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent."

"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."

"In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority."

"My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that."

"Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait."

"I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad."