Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it!

Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.

I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.

He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.

He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird

There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference.

And why not?” “You know why! This is a bad idea.” “Perhaps I like a challenge.” “Perhaps you’re a glutton for punishment!” “Perhaps I am in love.

Fresh blood at midnight isn't red. It's a purplish black that easily blends into the shadows.

We're going jogging." "I don't run for recreation. I run when someone's after me with a weapon." "That can be arranged.

Prevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners.

No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph.

You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.

We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.