When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette. But you’re not dead. I suppose the question must be, are you good?

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.

Everything they've said is tainted now. Every day was a lie.

We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.

There's a love that never changes, no matter what you've done.

Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

As we trust God to give us wisdom for today's decisions, He will lead us a step at a time into what He wants us to be doing in the future.

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.