It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents' lives seem to me organic and ours what? hydroponic? he would ask in derision what I meant. Define my terms. How do you measure the org...

I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin. your mouth, your hands...—I want you like an animal...or a whore.

How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural.Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you about yourself, they were about to fuck you over.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in...

He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.

He is himself again, more himself than at any time on this Earth. Nancy Reagan on her husband

He appeared to have pushed down the coverlet and undone the first few buttons of his banyan. Sweat had pooled below his throat, just at the junction of his collarbones, and she could see a few black h...

Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling beganto affect the netting under which the three children lay.It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallics...

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes into three acts, each scene inciting tension that builds to...

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

And I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

You may seek out a partner who psychologically resembles your mother and found that you have walked right back into a difficult relationship. Perhapse you chose to be close to someone who turns out to...

Warmth spread down my neck.It's actually, and not blah or whatever.

The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.