I’m one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.

Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.

Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.

He can’t ground her if he’s already killed her, ” I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. “Well, he can, but it wouldn’t have the same impact.

Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.

You like this darkness. You like learning me by feel.” Feeling very bold indeed, she nuzzled at him until she found his mouth with her own. “I like it too.

Charlotte wondered if she would have recognized the crazy much earlier if he looked more like Steve Buscemi then Mr. Medieval Hotness.

If you are seeking creative ideas go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.

We've got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.