It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

It’s Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon.

... vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy.

Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.

Alma: ¿Dónde está el oro aquel que viste? Todo ha cambiado cuando estuvo enfrente

Project: Potential was a separate class that the gifted students went to for an hour each day. The name was supposed to make it exciting, like Code Name: Cursive or Mission: State Capitals.

...I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival...

When a hadeeth is found to be saheeh, then that is my madhhab.

We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled.

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

How long a time lies in one little word?