You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?

It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that?

But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.

he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.

No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should.

I don't have kids, but in many ways I feel I've had them already. I don't want to say I raised my brothers - that sounds too strong - but actually I do feel like that a bit.