Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.