Love is like falconry," he said. "Don't you think that's true, Cleveland?" "Never say love is like anything." said Cleveland. "It isn't.

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

I'm never going to be a Tom Clancy. And I wouldn't really want to be - not that I have anything against him, and I wish him continued success - because that's not why I'm writing novels. I'm doing it because I have to. I feel like I have to, anyway.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.