Student food." His eyes went to the tomato on the sill. "Whatever's in the refrigerator over pasta.

Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul.

Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers were making.

Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck.

Bug? You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than me? Poop ice cream cones, do you? Call me a bug! Rachel, let me do him now.

Slicker than snot on a door handle.

I took a breath, seeing from across the room the rain on his eyelashes. A sudden need to brush them free filled me. I could almost feel the dampness of the rain on my fingers, how soft it would feel.

I generally find subtlety a waste of time.

I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

At home, I have a wife, fortunately, and my children are all grown, and I have many grandchildren. I spend weekends with my grandchildren; I adore them.

In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.

I don't need a mirror to see that it's true, cause I'm ugly with a capital U.

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.