Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she’s right.

Differences don’t necessarily mean conflict, diversity is beautiful!

I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

You can make a very heavy and kind of dangerous 3-way shot glass out of a bowling ball.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

I am totally free to choose thoughts of joy. It is my Divine right to do so.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.