Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.

And she had been in love enough times to rule out the possibility that this was merely some feat of nostalgia.

You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

They said the moment I fell in love with you was the moment you'd leave.

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.

I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine. I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.

There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.