He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct.

One is only as good as one is useful.

Hope is the damnedest of all feckless emotions.

There was no need to analyze the feelings that the people caught in the commission of the amorous act, held for each other, for it was literally written in their hands.

My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams

Love is ease.

It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial - it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it was.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that is possible our of life.

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

I like to box. It's a great release.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.