And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?

I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.

You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.

Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.

There is nothing foolish about hope.

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

Talk not of love: thou never knew'st its force.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

It's amazing... to enjoy the results of your labor.

I think we all share the same goal, which is a United States of America that inspires people and leads.