No, " said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court.""Well, I'm not, he dumped me.""You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court.""Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.

I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.

In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

Because Dad told you he'd be here forever. Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away.

Everything’s an act. Everything’s strategy.

...there’s few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife.

Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.

Prayer is a cry of distress a demand for help a hymn of love.

I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.