“The writings on the wall at North Point
Speak to a silent room
They shut the bars down, leave you to the gloom…”

“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”

“I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.”

“We may enjoy our room in the tower, with the painted walls and the commodious bookcases, but down in the garden there is a man digging who buried his father this morning, and it is he and his like who live the real life and speak the real language.”

“I have left my book,
I have left my room,
For I heard you singing
Through the gloom.”

“The difficulty which I feel as a Judge, and always felt at the Bar, is this: a defendant is entitled to put his back against the wall and to fight from every available point of advantage.”

“Gods, woman," William said. "Your voice is like death. Can you shut it until I leave the room? Please. Seriously, you're like the one woman in the world Ito resist." -Page 271”

“If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.”

“The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.”

“I'm welding the bimbo room shut.”