I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.

The world is a clock winding down.