Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.

He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.