"John and I felt that we were like people in an H. G. Wells story. Two people who are walking so fast that nobody else can see them."

"All the people around Hester hate her and despise her and think she's a total freak. The kid's beyond human law and human consideration. How do you feel about yourself when every human being you hear …"

"Human nature being what it is, or at least conditioning being what it is I was so insecure. I always had to watch out for other women. She leans forward and laughs "Because he was so damned good looki…"

"Nothing depict better the poverty of human nature than to see men, placed at the head of a State, and who should, so to speak, embody the law, be concerned only with their own prestige and their own p…"

"Hopefully, more and more people will begin to feel their story is somehow part of this larger story of how we're going to reshape America in a way that is less mean-spirited and more generous."