There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

Then why don't you go and ---- yourself.

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.