I saw the sunset forty-four times!
We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.
I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.
My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.
In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.
I don't think anyone's normal.
I don't see the point of pretending we're clones.
Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.
I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.
In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.