She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.

That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.

We change when circumstances necessitate it

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

Think of your girlfriend or boyfriend or whomever you want to.

I thought eventually I'd have a family and I really didn't want to be a loser like that guy in his 40s still shopping his band's shitty demo tapes around.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.