"I told you it was dirty. When you wander into the highest level of international affairs, it’s almost always dirty."

"We’re going to tell you about what it’s like, and what just might happen to you, and if you still want to be a writer…"

"“How quickly I could clean this desk,” she thought, “if only the wastebasket were larger.”"

"They wait in clutching haste for fate to fill the inside straight of their happiness."

"“I have been waiting for a sign. I knew that if I waited here long enough my bird, that tarishawk that rests here eac…"

"The only negative thing she had to say was that I displayed a tendency to exaggerate the facts for the sake of intere…"

"I see unhealthy signs of a new regime of religiosity and conservatism."

"I do not attempt here to derogate my brother’s reading habits, but merely to indicate the disparity in our interests."

"Now we have the prospect of a religious war on our hands, with the attendant proliferation of “heresies” and two sepa…"

"After all, our laws only reflect the definitions of the majority. When those ideas change, the laws change."