A good relationship is a two-way street, gatita. Submitting and serving is equaled by a master’s need to take control, to protect, to make someone happy.

She rubbed her cheek on his chest like a sleepy cat. “I like when you hold me.”Dios, she was going to break his heart. “I like when I hold you too.

You’re so damn big, ” she whispered.“Why, thank you cariño, ” he said.

Toys? When a man—a dom—said toys, he didn’t mean stuffed animals or baseballs.

And since I am a man, I would appreciate it if you would cry for us both, gatita.

You have a piercing.” “So I do.”“Didn’t that hurt?”“A bit.

Dammit, why isn’t there a book with the answers in it?

Any ham-handed idiot can make a woman scream. I prefer to assess…responsiveness.

If you are with me long, I will begin to spell Master with two M’s.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.

When you act with your heart, the universe conspires to help with your act.

Don't think about waht other's think of you. Matter of fact don't think at all, just be you. Do what you feel. No one else matters.

New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.

When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.

People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.

I fully support the NOH8 campaign and all it stands for and am proud to be a part of it. But I stand by my husband's stance on DADT.

When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.

When you believe in someone, they will do anything and everything to live up to those who believe in.