“His smile was laced with poison. Of the sweet variety. So as to taste first, look back later variety. –Tainted Book 2”

“In the time of your life, live - so that in this wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite variety and mystery of it.”

“A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.”

“Books allowed her vicarious tastes of infinite variety, but they didn't supplant the need to venture out into the big and the messy. In fact, just the opposite. Books convinced her that something more existed---something intuitive, beyond reason---and they whetted her appetite to find it.”

“Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.”

“No I try and set my books in lots of different locales. Variety is the spice of life!”