But nothing is quite perfect in this life, at any time.

Things were never perfect for more than a day at a time.

Each time, save for that single, nearly perfect one at the very beginning, something different had gone wrong.

"I like to be perfect and crazy at the same time," he said.

It probably was perfect, at that, with all its images of pain and suffering.

They had all been perfect at one thing: keeping secrets from each other.

The balance is not always so perfect at the Met.

I thought it would be just perfect for his cabinet office at the House.

But she only sat there, even more perfect at six inches tall, and talked with him.

Possibly it was always perfect at this hour on a summer morning.