He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.

That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Try a little tenderness.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

Break a leg up there, and I'll be down here hopefully breaking someone elses.

I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

The door to the invisible must be visible.

See? There it is again. My flame in the dark.

I think the erotic is very spiritual, and I never see that spiritual dimension when you look at collections of erotica. That's always missing for me.

I do, and I hunt. I like small horses best. They're like small men. They have more to prove so they take all the more risks and jump higher and faster than all the rest.

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.