Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.

William Shakespeare

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

Geraldine Brooks

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Sophocles

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

Ike Skelton

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Notebook E,

It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.

John Green

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Noel Coward

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Johann von Goethe

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

Anne Lamott

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Anita Brookner