At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things 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.

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

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

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

Ask the person who found you about what kind of people they were looking for before meeting you, as they may not know that they have found one of them already.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment, " she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

I really keep my life very simple.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

People really do want simpler, cleaner food, but this isn't about marketing, it's about delivering.

Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.