I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.

If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?

Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.

I'm damned if I'm going to be eaten by a bear when I'm naked." "I'm sure it's a more pleasant experience dressed.

The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.

Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.