I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.

Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One

Serve the Lord and then your success will be with Joy

If only it felt like an academic exercise when she kissed him, instead of a soul-drowning tsunami of want and need.

On this life you will act like a scientist, you need to keep experimenting and do some mistakes, but in the end you will find out how to make things so perfect ...

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.

The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

International rock star - gravy maker extraordinaire.