Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains

Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Why did you choose to stay here?" (...) "I don't know," he said. "It's as if there's more oxygen here.

Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his stomach, but he was aware of the idea of him and always would be, as the only true benchmark for everything that had come afterward.

...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

. . . it’s okay if we get mad at each other?”“Yeah, Buddy, it’s OK, as long as we don’t stay mad, and as long as we forgive each other when we mess up.”from upcoming book, "When I Am in Your Arms.

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.

Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.