"Throughout his career, Alex Acosta has been a passionate advocate for equal opportunity for all Americans. [...] His extensive experience has tremendously impressed me and my team and makes us confident that he will lead the Department of Labor with the utmost competence and determination to support the American worker. The American worker had been forgotten and left behind. That ended when I became President on January 20. Alex is going to be a key part of achieving our goal of revitalizing the American economy, manufacturing, and labor force. I call on the Senate to swiftly confirm this highly qualified and deserving leader so that he can get straight to work for the betterment of the American people."

"I am deeply grateful and honored for the opportunity to serve my country. [...] I thank the President and his staff for their confidence in me and I am eager to work tirelessly on behalf of the American worker"

"It's often said that with enough effort and determination you can do whatever you put your mind to. But saying those words and living them are different things, and my father has lived them. It's one of his defining qualities and I've seen it in action all of my life. Whatever he does, he gives his all and does it well. His desire for excellence is contagious. He possesses a unique gift for bringing that trait out in others, starting with those closest to him. He's always helped me be the best version of myself by encouragement and by example. He motivates me to work my hardest and to always stay true to who I am and what I believe. That's what he does: he draws out the talent and drive in people so that they can achieve their full potential. That's a great quality to have in a father and better yet in the president of the United States."

"As far too many know, it is the small, loving acts that help an enormous amount in times of grief. My father is good with advice, as you might guess, but he keeps it short, and the takeaway is usually the same: to help us find our own way, and our own gifts. If you do what you love, hold nothing back, and never let fear of failure get in the way, then you've pretty much figured out the Trump formula."

"They put lipstick on the pig to try to sell it to somebody that didn't know what they were buying."

"You can't hate the mirror because you're ugly."

"Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple."

"As we walked out of that room, he put his arm around me and said 'That's a very compelling presentation, and God, we hope you're wrong."

"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell."

"“Son,” he said, “you’re going to work in this life, and you’re going to play. And when the last days come, you’ll look back and find that that’s all there was, and endless stream of days going back to today. But if you can find the thing you should be doing, the thing that makes you you, and if you can make that thing yours, then you’ve beaten the game. I haven’t. Most men don’t. You probably won’t, either, but the point is to try, and to never give up, even when you think it’s over.”"

"When Melinda filed for divorce, she wrote down only two words as her reason for seeking a dissolution of our two-year marriage: Incontrovertibly self-absorbed. Or is that three words? No matter. The question I have is: Did she mean me or her?"

"I signed up for the sake of a uniform. I was not the first, and I will not be the last."

"Like me, he would turn to the one thing that had always sustained him through difficult times, the one piece of hide-saving equipment with which the military way of life had vested us: We could kill people and not care all that much."

"Due to the nature of my profession, I’ve been around death quite a lot, and while I’m not exactly on a first-name basis with the Reaper, we’ve exchanged business cards enough times to give each other a friendly nod when we pass by on the job."

"True loneliness, I learned that day, isn’t the lack of others. It’s the lack of others quickly."

"“We had a good day,” Tig said, slapping me on the back. “Got a whole mess of ’em, didn’t we? Two fifty-eight confirmed.” “Forget the numbers. You woke up this morning, and you’re going to sleep tonight. In my book, that’s a good day.” In recent months, I have adopted Tig’s philosophy."

"I like to think that she was right. And I would have responded, but soon our talk show came on, and we stopped worrying about ourselves and each other and started worrying about celebrities."

"I recognize that the career draws applicants from a certain psychological pool. Garrett came from somewhere near the shallow end."

"I tell the truth, but I don’t need to divulge everything."

"This poem is not addressed to you. You may come into it briefly, But no one will find you here, no one. You will have changed before the poem will."

"Between the lines it must have hurt To see the neighborhood go down, Your neighbor in his undershirt At dusk come out to mow his lawn."

"Merry the green, the green hill shall be merry. Hungry, the owlet shall seek out the mouse And Jack his Joan, but they shall never marryAnd snow shall fly, the big flakes fat and furry. Lonely, the traveler shall seek out the house, And Jack his Joan, but they shall never marry.Weary the soldiers go, and come back weary, Up a green hill and down the withered hill, And Jack from Joan, but they shall never marry."

"You neither can nor should understand what it means. Listen, it comes without guitar, Neither in rags nor in any purple fashion. And there is nothing in it to comfort you."

"The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?"

"Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children?"

"It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp."

"For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being."

"I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don't know, but I'm almost there. I hear my friends calling."

"And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister."

"Incompetence is rewarded more often than not."

"Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them."

"I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff."

"Every major city has a section like this one. If a piebald dwarf with advanced leprosy wants to have sex with a kangaroo and a teenage choir, he'll find his way here and get a room. When he's done he might take the whole gang next door for a cup of Cuban coffee and a medianioche sandwich. Nobody would care, as long as he tipped."

"Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there."

"Killing makes me feel good."

"I'm a very neat monster."

"Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?"

"I did not like this feeling of having feelings."

"But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation."

"Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting."

"And here I always thought morality was useless"

"Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?"

"Another beautiful Miami day. Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work."

"Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense."

"Why do so many people start their messages with, "It's me"? Of course it is you. We all know that. But who the hell ARE you?"

"After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby."

"I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities."

"Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me."

"It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is"