You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.

Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.