Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.

Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.

Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.

Are you always a smartass?'Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

Hell's bells, irony blows.

See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

I sidestepped the vampire's rush, and drove my half of the former blasting rod down at its back, Buffy-like.Maybe it works better on television.

You born with three obligations: to love, to live, and to be happy.

Kindness is true wisdom—not cleverness.

When they are all thinking alike, they aren't thinking at all.

The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.

I can't stand Bob Dylan.

Osama bin Laden has ten look-alikes to fool us Americans. Ten look-alikes, and he's married to five of them.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.