And he says I have lousy timing

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

Before the war, she'd never have gone out in the rain and happily stood in it. Now, it was a reminder that she was alive...

I feel like we tend to be our own worst critics.

If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.

I have memories of clouds whisking by while sitting in the pushchair on the roof of my parents' flat. I loved it! I just loved staring at the clouds and dreaming away.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It’s a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.

I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.