You wanna fight?" I asked. He looked up at me and, for just a second, hesitated, then said, "Yeah. I do." "Well, I'll save you the trouble. You win.

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.

Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil.

There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.

There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.

If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.

I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?

We can never right the wrongs of the past.

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.