He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.

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.

The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care.

Beauty is the only master to serve.

You know it's real when reality becomes a dream, the dream becomes real, and real feels unreal

The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend!

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.