“Sometimes, there isn't any way to compromise." - Eclipse, page 607”

“Any way, death is so final, isn't it?"Is it?" asked Richard."Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.”

“On page 603 it is stated that at first Blumenthal could not remember the lunch with me and my wife at which he had loudly impugned two female witnesses against Clinton. This makes it distinctly odd that he should have such have a vivid and detailed but mistaken recollection of the same lunch on page 607.”

“God turned his face the other way, and the earth was in darkness. "An eclipse of God... an eclipse of God”

“On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure....”

“This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.”