There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

Twitter and Facebook are brilliant tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.

The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering the first huge caches of data and trying to understand what was living and growing everywhere, there was such a sense of freshness to that pursuit. It's very exciting.

We realized you cannot create a car by simply gathering needed components.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.

As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.

I don't enjoy going to a very big wedding or a party or a huge gathering where there are lots of people. I enjoy small groups.

I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.

Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

'Homeland' was a sensation out of the gate in 2011, gathering acclaim and sweeping up Emmys, and the reason such shows are so overrated is because, unlike with other forms of popular art, success in TV is measured almost purely by how obsessive we become.

Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.

I'm worried about privacy - the companies out there gathering data on us, the stuff we do on Twitter, the publicly scrapeable stuff on Facebook. It's amazing how much data there is out there on us. I'm worried that it can be abused and will be abused.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.

I hate partying. If I'm forced to go to a party or a social gathering, I go in at 9:30 and leave at 10 P.M.

Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.