You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell howl!

No one is only good or only bad. We have a bit of both inside of us all.

I thought you were dead." Magnus smiled crookedly. "What, from that scratch?" He glanced down at the reddening jacket in Alec's hand. "Okay, a deep scratch. Like, from a really, really big cat.

He knew that the dread in these men’s minds was not of the fact, but of his naming it—as if the fact had not existed, but his words held the power to make it exist.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

As the son of a director, I really believe an actor's place is just to shut-up and do what you're told to some agree.

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.