Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, "Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today?

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.