The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

Contempt mates well with pity.