How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.

Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain.

Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.

The real tragedy of life is not the fear of darkness, but it is to conform and follow the darkness in spite of fear.

It means something, but it doesn't change anything.

I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.

There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a grey corridor lined with doors, it was now within my power to open some of them.

Growing up she'd heard rumors about the enforcer and how badass he was...

I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.

Is there anything else you need to tell me?” Every time I look at you, I have to put a leash on myself. “No.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

I can't say that I have ever been fanatical about a show. To be honest, I'm not a big TV watcher.

Hillary Clinton knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals.