No amount of expertly choreographed PR could prevail, in the end, against Armageddon. It strolled over the barricades and took its pleasure.

Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.

In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel

She faces him, trying to take a breath that's long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he won't see them in her face.

Because the bag is full of colours - starbursts and wheels and whorls of dazzling brightness that are as fine and complex in their structures as the branch is, only much more symmetrical. Flowers.

She's in the club. The hopelessly-outnumbered-and-surrounded-by-monsters club.

If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away:"That's where I wanted to go today!

Marriage is a partnership, not a corporate venture.

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.

The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.

The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart.

I grew up performing in theatre.

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.