There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.

Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.

Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.

If you don't like vampire games, don't play

People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.

if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.

Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.

They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.

Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?

His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.

I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.

Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.