We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.