It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

I am not a morning person.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

The best lies are always at least partially true.

Don't buy into a superficial reality. It has an expiration date.

It is easier to define whether or not you can afford something than whether you need it in the first place.

It was almost romantic, in a mad-inventor sort of way.

If you let yourself abandon the I-should-know-this-already attitude and simply accept your ignorance without giving yourself a hard time about it, then you can learn whatever it is you need to learn.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.

If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn't do anything unless you do it right.

I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.