Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

People see what they expect to see.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

The world, in spite of oppression, is a beautiful place.

If we want to raise children who will remain faithful to Christ and His Church, they need to see fathers on their knees in prayer.

[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.

The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

I'm not sure that people want to go back to the womb. People want to go back to the teats of your mother and hear your mother's heartbeat.

I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

There's a wide variety of demographics for fans of T.I. now, that you have to do something to satisfy everyone.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.