To be free is to have achieved your life.

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.