There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.