You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

Kira is our god, That's who does in this world justice, It's not KARMA!

Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

Believing in grace is one thing. Living it is another.

As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff.

The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.

In my dreams it happens, when I wake up I just hope for an even better and stronger UN.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion

Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that.

I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.