I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.

Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.

No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for dealing with vampires. He was a slime bucket, but now he was an undead slime bucket.

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.