Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.

Must be nice, I said, caressing the stick as if it might be my buddy and help me win. Money makes life all kinds of nice. Oh, and the way you’re fondling the stick is making me super horny here. I als...

Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.

Laughing, Bailey still put on a little frown. I want a man to cuddle. Tucker stopped kissing Maddy long enough to look at Bailey. Everyone needs love. Even the dipshit. I’ll find someone for you. Tuck...

It was no accident that the beau ideal of his (John Adams') political philosophy was balance, since he projected onto the world the conflicting passions he felt inside himself and regarded government...

Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from a manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Ni...

I didn't burn down anyone’s house! I didn’t. I wouldn’t!Maddie looked at Jacob.You know I wouldn’t. I didn’t kill you when I had the chance!

Hero might have enjoyed the evening spent at Almack's Assembly Rooms, but it had not been one of unmixed pleasure for her escort, while for one other person it had been an evening of almost unleavened...

He attacked her throat and she was so startled by the sudden move that she squeaked. He was laving her with his tongue, openmouthed, and she moaned, arching, wondering wildly if this was the same man...

Gary. Gregori drawled the name slowly and sat back in his chair, totally relaxed. He looked like a sprawling tiger, dangerous and untamed. Tell us about yourself. I work a lot. I’m not married. I’m re...

Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens...

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the...

Listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come...

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:genuine claritygenuine feelingthe right wordthe exact English sentencethe eloquent detailthe rigorou...