Better to be screwed physically than financially.

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?

You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.

You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised. "Yes." "That's . . . crazy, Sookie.

Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

I could never have gone to Africa another way and had the same experience. It was my job and my joy at the same time.

None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way.

Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.