Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?

It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.

As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.

We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies!

You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.