Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented.

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.

Change your ways when fear seizes, " he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.

Do you want it bad enough to get over being hurt?

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

I never had a doubt in my mind. I always knew that, with the right material, I could pop a hit.

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.