The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother.

What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.

I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.

When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours.

Your date appears to be hysterical," Rene told me. "You think I should slap some man into him?

You say the sweetest things. And that spaghetti perfume you're wearing is to die for. No hobo could resist." She snarled. Heh.

The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink.