The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have

He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.

How do you look when I'm sober?

Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.

You gonna take the case?"It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of."You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him if it was aliens, " Grandma said.

Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.

Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

It is a lot better to come from an evolved monkey than from a fallen angel.

Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.

A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.