I suggest you leave now, or you’ll be tied down and gagged until the end of this meeting.”“Tie us down?”“And gag you, ” Joseph cheerfully reminded them.

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.

We want to fight.”“And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that’s never going to happen, ” I said blithely.

What would you suggest?” one of the Italian officials asked.“We do have a highly-advanced biological device called the Illuminator, ” Joseph chimed in

I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste, ” I said.

If this is where you ask me to run around in my birthday suit, I’m not entirely comfortable with that, ” I said, smirking.

Oh yes. You’ve done a marvelous job of succeeding at failure.

To think, or not to think...This is the true question.

My heart stutters—not why? or how?—those are not the important questions. The really important question is: by whom?

Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Yesterday morning Facebook was temporarily offline, leaving millions of workers unable to do anything except their jobs.

As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.

We weren't too stressed out, this morning we just knew that if we had strong, good swims we would be fine, so it was actually a lot of fun.