Precisely. I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the un...
Pain isn’t a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain — physical, emotional, and otherwise — is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternati...
Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. L...
Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters.Run away.
One rather thick volume was titled Means of Execution Through the Ages, and was placed with an elegant balance of nonchalance and availability at the eye level of anyone entering the room. As threats...
Once you begin to mass-manufacture anything, by the very nature of the process, you lose the sense of personal attachment you might have to something made by hand.
Olympian, I should think, from the colors and the fur trim of his coat, Master Ferus put in. Olympian and, it would seem, possessed of a fury. Which is funny, if you know enough history.
Okay, Kincaid said. Anyone have any questions? Why do they sell hot dogs in packages of ten but hot dog buns in packages of eight?
Okay, I said to Karrin. Let's move.Uh, she asked, without turning her head. move where?The island, I said.Harry, this is a motorcycle.It'll work, I said. Look at it.Karrin jerked as she noted the appe...
Oh, good grief. The Mickey Mouse Club of werewolves wanted to throw in on my side.
Of course cats [can see ghosts]. As far as I can tell, all cats. But they aren't terribly impressed with the fact that we're dead and still present.
Not like those Dungeons and Dragons games. The real thing. He bought some of those tarot cards. She pronounced it like carrot. Amateurs.
Not everyone can be equally right, Harry. But believe you me, everyone can be equally wrong, I said.
Not every man in the Senate is some kind of masterful schemer, exerting all his energies to acquire more power and influence at the expense of all others. No, Isana agreed. Some of them are incompeten...
None of us had known the layout to Marcone’s place, so we’d chosen to approach from the rear, on general principles of sneakiness.
No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.
Names are unique sounds and cadences of words that are attached to one specific individual-sort of like a kind of theme music.
My answer came out at once. For me, chivalry isn’t dead; it’s an involuntary reflex. It could have been any woman asking for help, and I’d have said the same thing. It might have taken me a second or...
Mortals prattle on about lonely impulses of delight and the gift of knowledge, and think that teaching is a trade like metalsmithing or healing or telling lies on television. It is not. It is the diss...
Me and the Blue Beetle kick ass. In a four-cylinder kind of way, but it still gets kicked.