I started hyperventilating. The detective was very nice, and said he would test again.

I haven't let myself be angry about what happened, because it would tear me apart. I'm not sure I can bear to face it... . I'm amazed at how naive I was.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.