In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes, " he said finally.

I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him.

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman

I'll tell you a story about Johnny Magory!

Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy.

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.

Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

I do see myself going to LA. Not anytime soon.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

Any work of love brings a person face to face with God.

I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.