I felt a smile on my face. "Thanks." "For what?" "Using my name instead of calling me a thing.

I wanted to find a nice quiet spot, go to sleep, and dream about kittens.

Great. I guess you're the dog whisperer, vampire edition.

What was it about women and crying that made me feel like crap? They must have guilt pheromones in their tears.

Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two.

Can I finish my blasted story? We'll get to supernatural kindergarten later.

Hell, yeah, Ryland. Man up and carpe girl.

Hours of being asked:"Do you understand?" But for all of her answers, she never got around the one question I had wanted to ask."What does it feel like?

What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.

What I like best about the telephone is that it keeps you in touch with people, particularly people who want to sell you magazine subscriptions in the middle of the night.

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.

The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture.

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.