So, Sheriff, " she said. "How do you feel about a life of crime?

Pain is mostly mind over matter: if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

It's about damned time, " he said in a husky voice. "If I had to wait five more minutes to kiss you, I think I probably would have turned into a dragon myself.

Stu looked over his shoulder at the trailer. "She seems like a nice old lady, but jeez, that's a big dog." "Yes, " said Liam. "But a small dragon.

Mrs. Ivanov's gentle face was pale and bewildered, her wrinkles falling in on themselves as though they'd given up trying to hold on to any expression other than sorrow.

A simple act of kindness is happiness gained.

My friends are my estate.

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

A football team represents a way of being, a culture.