“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”

“I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.”

“No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.”

“A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.”

“When I find the motherfucker who tortured an innocent cat to death just to send us a warning, I'm going to clobber him with a baseball bat”

“It was completely impossible to box with her. She had only one style, which we called Terminator Mode. She would try to nail her opponent, and it didn’t matter if it was just a warm-up of friendly sparring.”

“And yet he kept sticking to her life like gum on the sole of her shoe, either on the Net or in real life. On the Net was OK. There he was no more than electrons and words. In real life, standing on her doorstep, he was still fucking attractive. And he knew her secrets just as she knew all of his.”