Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.

The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.

I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.