She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim

We are on the verge of listening

Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain

I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.

Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me

As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

There are times when Pride must transform into Vanity in order to reach the astray echo of the reflection of self.

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

True love is when you're cheating on a person but the thought of them still makes your eyes smile!

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

I knew when they [with Adolf Hitler] had been fighting because Eva [Braun] always reacted the same way. She would lock herself in her bedroom and cry and cry, sometimes for a long time.

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank!

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.