If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

You don't smoke do you?" "No, why?" "They're afraid of fire." "Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes." I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted.

Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?