He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

The dead pull the living down.

The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much

I wanted desperately to be part of our pack

Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

The urgent can drown out the important.

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside the slits in the sides of his hakama.