..."I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout.

Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.

I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.

He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.

He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird

There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference.

And why not?” “You know why! This is a bad idea.” “Perhaps I like a challenge.” “Perhaps you’re a glutton for punishment!” “Perhaps I am in love.

Fresh blood at midnight isn't red. It's a purplish black that easily blends into the shadows.

We're going jogging." "I don't run for recreation. I run when someone's after me with a weapon." "That can be arranged.

Prevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners.

No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph.

The Saviour is the Son of God.

Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.

Why spend our time searching to feel reality, when it’s the times that don’t feel real that we remember forever?

Look for her not in the valleys below, nor in the temple rooms. For she has gone, gone into the high passes, far beyond this dying moon.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.

I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.