The best way of keeping a low profile was to immerse himself in the mundane. Act like them, talk like them. A smile, a joke was all it took - at least during the day. The night was his own.

Soon he would be able to touch her, to feel the warmth of her blood. When the time came, nothing would stop him.

Smiles were rare in this house. Smiles had to be bought and paid for.

Their attention was focused on the strange kid who wore black eyeliner and dressed as if every day was a funeral.

Turnstall's view of what men could and couldn't do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I agreed that there was no manly or unwomanly, only what you chose to do.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

My most important identity now is as a mother.

I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.

Our response to an offense determines our future.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.

You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.