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

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

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.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

It is commonplace, and true, to point out that animals are happier than people because they live entirely in the present.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

You can't take 11 [million people ] at one time and just say, boom, you're gone.

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

I got born in the wrong family.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.

I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.

We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.