You bat your baby blues at tall, dark, and gruesome, and next thing you know, he's trailing you like a lost puppy.

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

The more you care, the more you fear.

I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

So many celebrity websites you go to are so sterile that you know they just pay somebody to do it and there's not even an ounce of them in it.

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

I think March and fall are natural seasons for me to feel invigorated.

I was having chest pains. Photoshop made it glamorous.

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.