I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

Part 3 BACK TO SCHOOL (THE NORMAL KIND)

Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.

Nudge: "I look like prep school Barbie. (looks at Max) Actually, you look like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend.

We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him. "So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.