Vanity, thy name is vampire.

Troubleshooters?" Michael asked. "When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.