It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job.

We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.

Trust is a lot to ask of someone.

Sophronia felt bound to object. "I, for one, should prefer not to shoot at someone I like.""Admirable scruples, Miss Temminnick. Get over them. For you will do it anyway.

For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.

We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.

It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.

After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.

He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.

Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen

What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners.

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn't you have done that on a night I didn't have a date? That's most nights, in case you're curious.

Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.

Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.

People are always vulnerable when they're happy.

The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.

Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.