“I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent...” — M. J. Hyland Quote

“I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.”

“I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.”

“Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.”

“President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country.”

“Every time I go to the dentist they say, 'You really need to fix that gap of yours'. I'm like, 'My gap is paying your dentist bills.'”

“I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.”