But desperate people find courage.

Culture clash is terrific drama.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.