"I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while." It was my turn to be quiet. "Did you take it?" "Would I be calling you if I had?" "Maybe," I said. He laughed. "True, but I'm not going to take it." "Why not?" "Friendship." "Try again," I said. "I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you." "Comforting."

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.

A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

Besides I'm a sucker for a pair of pretty eyes.

was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that.