The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

Dessert was an over baked chocolate chip cookies the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

He paused and manufactured a chuckle.

For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy.

If you're in my shoes, and your goal is to leave people with the biggest possible smile on their face, then doing the meet-and-greet afterwards makes sense.

It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to play a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action.

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.

I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.

When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.

I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.