Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that.

Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.

Dewey sent him, I thought, when I saw those eyes.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.

Anyway, The Snack really helps me to understand that death is a part of our life. There is life, and there is darkness, always together.

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.

Most people in the university [ Columbia University ], including the administration, are very biased against the military.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.