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Love is that liquor sweet and most divine, Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.

Love is swift of foot;/Love's a man of war.

This is not just about same-sex couples. It is about which values will dominate in our society.

Any couple willing to fight for a public recognition of their love and a lifetime commitment has sanctity on their side.

One of the great discoveries of neuroscience is the mirror neuron system.

But to liberals, who have their own very different moral system, conservative policies are so immoral that any conservative discussion of morality is taken as demagoguery. Of

practical guide both for citizen activists and for anyone with a serious interest in politics.

Because language activates frames, new language is required for new frames. Thinking differently requires speaking differently.

Conservative language activates circuitry for the conservative worldview; progressive language activates circuitry for the progressive worldview.

What we have here is an image-mapping based on structure—in this case, struc- ture that is in part metaphorically imposed. When such a mapping exists between the structure of a sentence and the structure of the meaning or the image that the sentence conveys, the mapping is called "iconic.

Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it's really very slight. But the real difference I think is in how it plays out, how it relates to cultural stereotypes.

It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.

I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.

I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.

I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.

Women are still congenitally Democratic - and I'm the Republican pollster saying that.

I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.

I met Heinlein after 'The Forever War' had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he'd read it three times.

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number of legal battles in this country. It has succeeded in passing a number of what are called 'religious exemption laws.'