I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden.

If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

As a child, I used to 'torture' other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors and organize performances.

When watching 'The Passion,' Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and killed. For the same two hours, Jews watch Jews arrange the killing and torture of the Christians' Savior.

Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.

I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier.

When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.

Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.