You have to go for it. For the rest of us.

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

I dress like a tomboy.

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" "Is that including, or not including you?

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

Can I convince the person about whom I'm crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

What kind of knife is this?” Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains’ inspection. “It’s all wrong. You couldn’t kill anyone with this.

Love is the glue that holds the world together.

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.