A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)