Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He'd forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect.

True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.

If I let you get killed, the other body guards will make fun of me.

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.