SOUNDS GROSS, " he said. "SALAZAR PREFERS WOOD. TAPESTRIES ARE ALSO ACCEPTABLE.

You could heal him?" I asked, glancing at Hal."Could, " said the wysling, "but won't, until I get what's

Very few people have the nerve to grab their dreams. Most that you meet will be half-images or carbon copies of who they really want to be.

I'm about to cross a line with you...a line there will be no hope of me ever returning from. And I'm terrified because the thought of you excites me.

I think Ken should grow some balls and tell Barbie to piss off, " Matt said after Ashley waved an accusing finger in Darren's (leg-puppy) face, then stomped off to a table beside a window.

So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.