the look of the sky as the day's blue blood runs out of its cheek.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Weird love's better than no love at all.

Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.