I have made many deals in thirty-five years, some of them very large.

That was the only one that ever made me weep.

On its opening night she stood beside me in a blue dress and watched the first twelve recipients applaud, women who were being handed exactly the independence and dignity that her own son and his wife had tried to strip from her, and I do not think I have ever been prouder of anything I built, and I have built a great deal.

Garnet reached out, eventually.