Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you treat it carefully in order to get the most out of it.

Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.

Your reaction makes me deliciously curious. Will you be kept awake tonight wondering if I knew it was you? Imagining yourself under me?"-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance

The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes.

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Before I go to bed at night, I ice my face, because it closes your pores and makes a difference in the morning.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.

I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

He wished that they could go through life like this. That he could physically put himself between Eleanor and the world.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.