There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.

Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.

Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller!

Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.

One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.

Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.

Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.

Whatever territory you choose to explore and then invest all your time into it, you will be amazed how easy it is to become great.

If you are really doing all this for your kids, then why are you so mean to them?

We set out to change the world.

Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.

Focusing on one thing can be tough, and people with fewer options are more apt to concentrate on what they're doing. There's probably something to hunger.

More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.

There was no one really like John Bender at my high school.

Drugs are for idiots. I'm never going to be that person.

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.

We all have the same needs. So it's immoral to make snap judgments about people.