“People take power trips at the most inopportune times.”

“His overactive charm poured out like a lone drainage pipe after a flash flood.”

“I measure my days by the number of homicidal thoughts I have. I only had two today. So it must have been good.”

“He had a bushy unibrow that could house a family of quail.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“He lost his appetite for reading. He was afraid of being overwhelmed again. In mystery novels people died like dolls being discarded; in science fiction enormities of space and time conspired to cr...”

“That he had been born an artistin all waysa paragon of romantic torment out of the likes of some Bront novelhas yet to make itselfknown to him. He watches himself unfold.”

“You are the master of your emotions and you and only you have the power to control them external and internal.”

“Im in, especially if theres a bad guy. Do I get to hurt a bad guy?”

“He was silent a moment; then he said, "I want a drink of water." She almost laughed aloud, because it was such a mundane request that could have been made of anyone, but then she saw the tension in...”

“Calmly, deliberately, he moved his hands down to her breasts and molded his fingers over them. Jay inhaled sharply, and he said, "Easy, easy," as he stroked the soft mounds. "Steve, no." But her ey...”