Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.