Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

Is negative space the space you don't like, or the space that is not there? And if it's not there how can you tell?

We're all immortal until we die.

Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.

I’ve told you that I’m a tricksy wight, and I am, my sweet. But there are those in the Seelie Court who would make me seem a very perfect knight.

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

I always look at my favourite photographs or favourite movies by James Bidgood or Sofia Coppola before I write my songs - they put me in the right frame of mind.

Breaking Away' was a great experience. It's the kind of movie that engenders a lot of goodwill from people.

I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.

I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.

Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

My friend Sam has one leg. I went to his house. I couldn't go up the stairs.