Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.