See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that problem with the elevator last year. I don't care what anyone says, that wasn't my fault. when a giant scorpion the size of an Irish wolfhound is tearing its way through the roof of your elevator car, you get real willing to take desperate measures.

Lies. Mab cannot change who you are.