I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.

The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.

People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then you make your work fit that cookie cutter. It's the other way around. One works by simple observation, looking into things. It's usually called insight and out of that comes your view - not that you have the view first and then squash everything to make it fit. I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.