Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.

If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.