It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

Money buys access; access buys influence.

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

The best relationships are simple. No lies, no cheating, simply two people that will always be there for each other nomatter what.

So you're a Shadowhunter, ' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.''Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.

Children are the greatest blessing from God.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.

What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar