Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.