Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.

TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and doesn’t let go, even after you’ve closed the book.

That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

All I know is I make sense to me- it's other people who seem complicated.

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

The path to enlightenment is when you allow presence, love and gratitude to overlap your ego.

I would soar like a bird, solitary, unmated, but untrammeled.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

I would never know how that person felt when they first heard my song. They coulda been at rock bottom and my song could have literally been the thing that saved them, but I would never know that.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.