I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.

Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.