A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

I promise if you come to my car I won't cuff you unless..." his voice dropped in a sensuous tone, "...that's what you want.

It’s important for intuitive people to differentiate other people’s energy from their own pre-existing emotional state.

Unless a person actually hates sin, he will continue to practice it.

Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure on the Prairies a cause in Ontario a business in Quebec a religion in the Maritimes a disease.

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.

The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.