God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference. I still didn't know the difference.

Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale.

Anything you can do, but the computer can do it better than you. That's not a skill!

from Out of the Darkness (book 2):Zoe met Eric's eyes. Even in her platforms she was still a few inches shorter than he was. "And what do you do?"His mouth quirked. "I set people on fire.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.

I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.