I tilt my face up and inhale, willing my surroundings to enter me somehow and to remind me how small I am.

You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.

Was he seeking shelter from death? Malcolm could not have that.

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

... the country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.

All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.

I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

When we refused to be forced out of Berlin, we demonstrated to the people of Europe that with their cooperation we would act, and act resolutely, when their freedom was threatened.

I always love China, especially the old China.

It had to be one of the weirdest things in the universe that Lissa had never come close to suspecting my feelings for Dimitri but that Adrian had figured it out.

I want to look good, obviously. I don't want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. That's why I take care of myself when I work.

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.