One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.