...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.

Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

When I was researching my very first novel, "The Basic Eight," I was calling right-wing political and religious organizations and asking them to mail me their material so that I could mock them in my novels.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.

It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.