Whatever you do, don’t make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.

Torque was the greatest thing in the world, as far as Lina was concerned.

Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.

Trust me, there are things in this mountain that will make your jaw bounce off the floor.

If you have nothing to write your power of imagination is lost.

What if there is no such thing as other people's wrongness..... ?

I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

Jimmy Ford is the baddest white man on the planet.