Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.