"I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses."

"But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips."

"We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers."

"One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around."

"There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory."

"When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?"

"I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater."

"Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves."