What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

There were faces at the windows and words written in blood; deep in the crypt a lonely ghoul crunched on something that might once have been alive; forked lightnings slashed the ebony night; the faceless were walking; all was right with the world

Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.