He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.

The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.

All property is theft, except mine.