Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.

Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.

I had about as much chance to do that as I did of backpacking my car to the top of Mount Rushmore.

You don't have to make fun of it.""Actually I do, " I said. "I make fun of almost everything.

Insecurity, thy name is teenager.

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

You cannot have qualifications without experience

Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.

If you want to know someone, just look at who they choose to spend their time with.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.

Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.