I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

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.

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.

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.