The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write

Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

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