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

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 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

It is not possible to satisfy women, " a friend said. "We are disturbed if we have children too young. Disturbed if we have then later. Disturbed if we don't have children at all.

You guys just aren’t fair, between your vampire pheromones and your gorgeous good looks, we humans just don’t stand a chance.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Every heart has its own melody.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.

I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.