I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

Between world and animal are fewer questions than between man and world. How many such questions are there in God's Word?

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing to her while she plays with her cheap little bath toys in the tub.

Both are salty, one will give me carpal tunnel, I'll go with the fries.

Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere?

You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.