“... there was one new metallic monstrosity stacked in one corner that she hadn’t seen the last time she was a visitor to his strange chamber, it appeared to be a mass of hard drives all fused together, but they looked too sophisticated to be merely hard drives.“What on earth is that?” “That’s my Kung Fu,” he said proudly, patting the top of the futuristic-looking stack.“Is that what you wanted to show me?”“No, but it’s impressive, isn’t it?”“If you say so.”Steves sighed and shook his head, so few people could appreciate the intellectual complexity of an almost untraceable hacking device.”

“#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.”

“There's nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look.”

“You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.”

“You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.”

“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?”

“I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.”

“Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers...”

“I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive.”

“One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.”

“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?”