Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

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

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

We were created from time

Unforgiveness is so much stress, I tell you. You just keep going round in circles instead of taking a straight path which forgiveness offers.

Some seeksolace inwhiskey, I drown mysorrowsin ink.

The world isn't ready for what I have to say.

I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.

Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

A poem is like a painting.

I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.