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“At desk number eighteen on the center aisle, the Democratic floor leader's desk, a short, very slim, very blue-eyed, dark-haired man….

Pixie smile, the "vivacity of a song and dance man," a charm that made him arrive in the Senate Chamber "like a glad breeze." Well-timed pauses, head cocked to preface the witticism, brow raised to indicate disbelief… The Prince Charming of Politics.”

“We know the beauty of this house-its limestone steps, its wainscoting, its marble baths. But more, we know that the house is haunted, that there is blood in the bricks and ghosts in the attic. We know that there is both tragedy and comedy in this condition. Our own lives and culture-our music, our dance, our writing-were all crafted in this absurd space beyond the walls of
"civilization."

“The accretion of imperfect, discomfiting life must be seen and felt so that the space in your mind, gray, automatic, and square, fills with angle, color, and curve… But the color is not just in the physical world you observe but in the unique interaction between that world and your consciousness — in your interpretation, your subjectivity, the things you notice in yourself.”