Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected.

The best of what we are lies in what we hope to be

...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.

You're not so tough. No tougher than the man whose blood will spill from your veins.

The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

On stage I am the actor, director and the bouncer all at the same time. Fear does not exist in this dojo does it? No Sensi! Sorry when I get excited I have to toss in some Karate Kid quotes.

I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.

I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.

Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.