It is so easy to be hopeful in the day time when you can see the things you wish on.

It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to then assuage them with new products.

It isn't that as time goes by you're learning sorcery; rather, what you're learning is to save energy. And this energy will enable you to handle some of the energy fields that are not employed in perc...

It was one of those things they keep in a jar in the tent of a sideshow on the outskirts of a little, drowsy town. One of those pale things drifting in alcohol plasma, forever dreaming and circling, w...

Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-ti...

Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell.I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.

I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.

I catch sight of Luis with one of my bandannas on his head and my gut tightens. I yank it off him. Don't ever touch this, Luis.Why not? he asks, his deep brown eyes all innocent.To Luis, it's a bandan...

I couldn't tell you what was happening on the TV screen. My eyes saw the pictures, but could not register what was happening, especially since my eyes kept falling on Luke. I knew that he knew that I...

He had stayed. And fought for me. Week after week, he’d fought for me, even when I had no reaction , even when I had barely been able to speak or bring myself to care if I lived or died or ate or star...

He shook his head pityingly. This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You...

Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike RACRECIR Especially Create Infinite Regress

I feel like the secretary to the morning whose only/responsibility is to take down its bright, airy dictation/

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather...

I grinned at Daemon and held up a bulb that was so green it almost matched his eyes. I decided it was going to be bulb.

I have brought peace to this land, and security, he began.And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the u...

I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.

I have never been able to understand how men can feel affection for individuals who are intent on massacring them in a variety of unpleasant ways, but it is an undeniable fact that they can and do. Wi...