"I have boobs!" Chloe said again, a bit too loudly— she'd already had a couple of mini bottles at the Spot. "My ***** are great, goddammit. You know that? They're fantastic! My ***** are amazing."

“God has plans and purposes for each of our lives. But the beauty is that He doesn't call us and leave us on our own. Jesus actually lives in us to pull off the amazing things that He has invited us into.”

“The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.”

“My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.”

“I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.”

Source : "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

“I don't hate my enemies. After all, I made 'em.”

“Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.”

“It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.”

“When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.”

Source : "Mitt Romney Defends The Bush Record" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2010.