Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

The next morning, Angie woke with the sun...Her eyes felt gritty and swollen.Once again she'd watered her mattress with memories.

Henry Cabot Lodge was like medicine, good for you, but hard to take. – Teddy White

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain

God has brought me this far. He has laid out a phenomenal path for me. And I can't do anything but thank him.

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

It was a very bold step for Sports Illustrated, and a lot of people are taking notice. I want it to be so normal that people don't even notice anymore.

There is someone that I must meet again. And until that day… not even Death himself can take my life away!