People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

Love is looking for you when you are looking for love.

If a wish turns to hope, it’s worth chasing. (Lucas Warbuck: Darkotika - Book 2)

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

Nate: “And,” he said, “boys at twelve aren’t exactly slick with the ladies.” Ruby: “’Slick with the ladies’?” I said. “Are you twelve?

There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution.