Women may get to wear lots of pretty colors, but men get the comfortable shoes. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

I am not a morning person.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

The best lies are always at least partially true.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.