The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.

If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch.

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

Be yourself, until you bleed.

Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him.

Insurance companies don't necessarily want to invest in your wellnes because you're likely to switch insurance companies within 10 years. They don't benefit from their investment in you.