There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

Either you fulfill your mission or make money. Choose the former.

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.

You have to leave all your options open. And if you don't leave your options open, you're a fool.

We need to unleash the military in unison with our partners in Europe and the Middle East to be effective.

You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's the way it is.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

I like to go to the races at Hollywood Park, but I don't usually win with the horses, so afterward I go to Auntie Em's and drown my sorrows in a red velvet cupcake. It never fails me.

Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.