“Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.”

“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”

“Just ’cause I’m the picture of manly perfection doesn’t mean I don’t have a brain.”

“Being Jesus doesn't mean that I am always at the center, always doing something, always making something spectacular happen. Being Jesus simply means that I show up to be "part of" something. Maybe being Jesus isn't so much about making it happen as it is letting it happen.”

“When I picture a perfect reader, I always picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born adventurer and discoverer”

“Did someone actually have to do bad things to be a bad boy, or was it all about the potential? If it was the potential that counted, then maybe it was the restraint that was so sexy, knowing that he could do something dangerous and powerful but had the restraint not to.”