At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.

All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.