Rescue operation, " he says, breathless. "Saved Barbie from drowning.

What are we doing, burying bodies?" Admittedly, this would be a lace to do it. Isolated, off any main roads."Nope. We're going to war.

Chance likes to ride in back, standing up at red lights and pounding on the roof in (what he insists is) Morse code. We won't mention that to Dad.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

It's a never-ending process to try to make yourself the best person you possibly can.

My soul is not a palace of the past.

People must get respect for their new ideas.

I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.

Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.