... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions.

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.

The choices she's made have left her without choice.

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if we didn't have to return to airports.

The only people who don’t love apps are pundits who don’t understand that apps aren’t really in opposition to the open Internet. They’re just superior clients to open Internet services.

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

I'm a patriot of the heart.

My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and sting my skin, and make me feel alive again.