I watched you roll off me and step away from the bed in silence, but when the heat of your body was gone, I wanted it back.

They’d come for you, and this time they’d come with we

The second day, I watched you suffer through one of your nightmares, but this one was worse than I’d seen before. You called out another man’s name.

I wanted to take your hand into mine and kiss it.I never dared.

Not your distress. Never that. I loved— I loved being there. Next to you. The pile of limbs that was Us. Together in the same bed. Even if it meant waking up with a few new bruises.

I was asked a series of ques

I didn’t know what

I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.

I’m nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole

I loved you even when you forgot me.And—for a little while—you loved me back.

I know you’ve forgotten me, but I’ll remember you as long as I live.

Watson represents merely a step in the development of smart machines. Its answering prowess, so formidable on a winter afternoon in 2011, will no doubt seem quaint in a surprisingly short time.

A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket.

Oblivion cures the old wounds.

Violence is my last option.

Some people think they are too good to walk the same earth as the rest of us, let alone attend the same church.

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.