He looked at me then, his deep golden eyes meeting mine, and I saw a heat in them that I felt reflecting in my own.

That's when I realized the chill wasn't coming from outside—it was coming from within me.

The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me.

Darkness engulfed me...There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold.

Who do I think would appreciate my book?I’m surprised anybody does. Oops, did I say that out loud?

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.

Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.

A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.

Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.

And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.