It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines.

The big show is inside my head.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

Rome wasn't built in a day.