'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.

Aku ingin bahagia. Dan, aku berhak bahagia--tanpamu.

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

Magic can be found in stolen moments.

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.

Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.