I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.

You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.

There are laws for everything except the harm families do.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.