Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?

The how of any betrayal was the hardest part to justify. How the lies can be assembled and stacked and maintained until the truth was completely hidden behind them.

Everyone comes with baggage

I need not flatter any man

A lot of businesses would rather make an extra dollar than to save a soul. If greed isn't evil, what else would we call it?

Not knowing the answer to a question is not a valid excuse for making up a fairytale to explain it.

Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.

A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.