Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary.

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

People are generally gracious and generous of spirit.

I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching her sleep.

Lucy woke with the munchies the night the kidnappers came for her.

The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.

That might be nice, an extra pair of arms," Jace said. "Handy in a fight." "Not if they're growing out of your..." Dorothea paused and smiled, not without malice. "Neck.

Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.

I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.