In this otherworldly moment I am profoundly grateful to be here, to be alone, to experience this thing that no one has ever experienced and that no one else ever will.

I will not be a victim. I will not think like a victim. I am going to avenge all those little girls. I am going to win.

I don't know how the Wolfman knows all this, but he's not wrong. My warm cheeks turn scalding hot. "Your shame is a good sign. You may break sooner than I thought. The breaking is good. It purifies.

Wolfman clears everything off the table except his gun. That he keeps close at hand. There is a sense of ceremony about his actions. My stomach tightens up. We are about to begin.

It was like a commercial for laundry detergent or tampons or a prescription medication with death listed as a possible side effect.

Life isn't fair, " comes the voice of Nana. She has told me that a thousand times. "What matters is how you handle it." I'm going to handle it by winning.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

I love religion but I don't need it for votes.

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

The good life is one that's artistically made.