You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on.'' 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.

I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.

Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.

I know that touching you will be understanding my fingers for the first time.

Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left.

The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

Allah says Jannah is awesome, imagine how awesome that is when the All-Knowing is calling it awesome

Mao is the only real Marxist at the leadership level in the post-Marx period.