There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books.

...she made her home in between the pages of books.

Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.

When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the accumulated memory of all our kisses.

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.

Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it

What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you, ' I said to her.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.-Isabel Culpeper

...by the end of my first week as an intern, I am just about ready to throw my pager out the window. A high window. Overlooking a trash compactor. Filled with highly corrosive acid.

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

Because I can’t live without Della. I don’t want to. She’s the reason I get up in the mornings - Woods

Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated and insular.

There was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the attack of 9/11, I've never said that and never made that case prior to going into Iraq.

Beach balls at festivals are the work of the devil.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.

Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?

Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.