He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.

We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.

Trust is a lot to ask of someone.

Sophronia felt bound to object. "I, for one, should prefer not to shoot at someone I like.""Admirable scruples, Miss Temminnick. Get over them. For you will do it anyway.

For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.

We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.

It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.

It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job.

After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.

Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

When you forgive everyone, you have no one to fight.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.