Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.

She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.

I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it.

She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.

Reading leads to good character development.

One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so much as it is something that comes to you, or that presents itself.

Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.

...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

Impossible is possible if you put your mind into it and don't give up.

I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.

I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving.

All that celebrity stuff isn't me. It's just not acting.

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.