He had talked to hundreds of witnesses. And he knew that if someone felt pressured, they would try too hard, and their imagination would fill what their memory couldn't recover.

She was a beautiful girl, but the lack of any spark dampened her prettiness.

We must pursue knowledge and wisdom above all other things.

The trouble with insanity is it can flare up at the most inconvenient moments.

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).

There's a lot of anxiety about terrorism among the country at large. There's also a feeling the country has stagnated.

The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.