She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

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

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.