It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it must exist at all times in men's minds.

Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?""Come now, " said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American war.

Everyone fights an American war.

Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.

All her life she'd had little interest in the workings of boys' minds, which she imagined only as a set of flimsy pinwheels turning in the direction of obvious things.

She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.

Steven Fry on The Da Vinci Code-"It is complete loose stoolwater. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind.

To make yourself something less than you can be - that too is a form of suicide.

...a disciplined pursuit of less will keep us focused and make the greatest impact.

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

I think people recognize I'm very sincere in what I say.

If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.