For a moment, it was almost as if they were friends again.

Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world.

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.

There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.

You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

He thinks we're made of money.

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

There is no "right" way--only the way that is put before you.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen.

If you've ever seen album covers for Arab female pop stars, it looks like the designer was paid five dollars to make them, and the extreme femaleness is astounding.

Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'

Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world.

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.