For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.

The life of your dreams begins with the unfolding of consciousness from within.

I came up with my own 'Dream Shake' I guess - the white version.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

My skin's too white." she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand.

If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.

One of the problems that Hillary Clinton had, and one of the problems that Democrats still have is people don't really know what we stand for.