Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.

Of the classic fIve W's and an H, Amy's approach seemed to be that when you have a handle on the WHO, the rest will more or less reveal itself accordingly.

He remembers which sisterI like least and askshow she is doing.(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')

The main weapon of the devil is disillusionment

If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live.

Why are you lying to me? I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?

We remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my parents thought the whole Jewish thing was a phase.

There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.