“In the end, daughter of pandora that I am, my curiosity got the best of me. I wish it hadn't.”

“On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?”

“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.”

“I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.”

“Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.”

“Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.”

“As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.”