"I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears."

“No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.”

“I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

“I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.”

“A good question has many answers.”

“It was a Friday night, she was at a club, and a good-looking man was currently giving her the I-want-to-take-you-home-and-I-hope-I-last-longer-than-five-minutes look… and she was thinking about pie, a young adult book, and feeding her cat. She was so turning into the cat lady at twenty-seven. Sweet.”

“I always tried to do what I believed is right and I've always voted the way that I believe was the right way for my constituency, and that's what I'm doing when I govern.”

Source : Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 25, 2011.

“Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.”

Source : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.27

“A first-place team? You're always excited to become a part of that.”