I've seen men in $5,000 suits urinate in public fountains here. Las Vegas is the best place on earth.

I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes, than drama.

exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.

During my MFA, I was lucky to be surrounded by a really supportive group of peers. And now I get feedback pretty exclusively from freaks only.

Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.

If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.

I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.

I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.

My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie" category.

Luckily I'm on prescription drugs that prevent me from worrying about anything too much.

I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.

The thought, 'I can't' is a lie. We use it to excuse ourselves from trying.

Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name

Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.