I think when magic is dark enough, it can look like anything it wants.

It was not accustomed to being summoned.

Father Gregory laid a hand on his shoulder. "Sometimes life knocks us to our knees." His hand tightened briefly. "But that's a damn good position to pray from.

Go do your thing, magic girl.

Bez blew out a breath and leaned heavily against the bar. "Honestly, D, you're better off busting your subversive cherry with something else. A nice werewolf killing. A vampire blood drive.

Ain't good to talk too much about infernal affairs if you can avoid it. Tends to make certain things stand up and pay attention.

Wrong. This was wrong. A list of words raced through his head. Apostate, heretic, pagan.Witch.

A chaotic mix of emotions churned inside him. Relief. Anger. Longing. She was the last person in the world he wanted to see. She was the only person in the world he wanted to see.

like traveling without knowing what country you’re going to

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

If we don't go forward, we won't find anything.

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.