What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

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

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.