“If the virgin Mary appears wearing a veil on all of her pictures, how can you ask me to sign on a Hijab ban law?”

“I set my words carefully upon the page; they have taken time to prove, to ripen and mature.I look and listen to their cadence, shape and syllables.Like bread and cheese and wine, I lay them out for you”

“I don't live by the fuckin Dow Jones anymore. I live by the Tao, Jones.”

“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.”

“Gay and Lesbian Canadians are entitled to equal treatment under law and are part of Canada's diversity.”

“I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. I’m an orphan, and someday I’ll be a lawyer. That’s what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.”

“Morini read the letter three times. With a heavy heart, he thought how wrong Norton was when she said her love and her ex-husband and everything they'd been through were behind her. Nothing is ever behind us.”