In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me.

It's very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I'll read a story in the paper and the first thing that pops into my head is, what would my dad say about that? Then I try to break out...

Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange...

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

Think of you! I do not think of you

Are you insane? she replied. Yes. Jeoff didn't even bat an eye as he admitted it. - Arabella & Jeoff

I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every...

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.

A woman never thoroughly cares for her lover until he has ceased to care for her

I felt a lunatic's laugh welling up inside me.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

It is an interesting thing, love, It can turn lambs into heroes, and heroes into lambs.

He felt Miss Kristina's presence like something poisonous and something infinitely sweet mixing together in his blood. Inside him, a lack of willpower and a colossal tension battled it out. He felt...

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

"People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we string them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how...

She has one hell of a dark soul, but damn, it's so full of light!

I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.

He that's convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still.

my intention that people will feel like throttling her

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it...

The one thing I did ask my dad was about the boys' problems at home. Whether or not he thought the parents hit their son. He told me to mind my own business. Because he didn't know and would never ask...

in a squalid, run-down house in the worst

It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.