The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

It’s most unfair. Once people find out you’re a vampire they act as if you’re some kind of monster.

He grinned. It was the sort of grin that Agnes supposed was called infectious but, then, so was measles.

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.

Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow between the dead cattails and see nothing but grey skies and dead things and cold

My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.

A bulldog can whip a skunk, but sometimes it's not worth it.

Don't blame others when something goes wrong. Don't blame yourself endlessly, either. Just find ways to do it differently next time.

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

I love playing football. I love playing for the Patriots.

The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.