I’m tickling a traced pattern over her bare hip. She’s pretending to sleep. Her smile is an idiot. A bad secret keeper.

I’d lick you numb, Mariah. You have no idea the things I’m capable of.

Who loves you, Warren Valentine?" She did. I want Lilla to know that kind of love. The kind of love that never leaves or abandons.

I think you better hurry along with that French toast making, Stud. You know—before my fetus eats your face.”“It would be equally as delicious.

Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry.

When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.

If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?

I'm a proud strict mom and, you know, I'm really proud of the two daughters I've raised. And I'm especially proud of my relationship with them. We're very close. I think we're good friends.

I'm a very friendly socialist.

Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.

I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.

The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.