The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.

I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.

Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said. "It is today.

Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.