The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

Parker Haas, crying Omaha, and his sleepless Rose.

You are going to die in front of dozens of witnesses, and none of them will do a thing to help you or avenge you. Because they know exactly what you know: The world is ending.

I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a secret that could endanger my life.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

My love always surrounds everyone around me.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.

He who conquers, endures.

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

There was one part of my life where I would go out every night. Ha-ha, if I missed going out to the club, it was the end of the world. I still like to go out, I love to hear music, I love to dance.

All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.