There was no himself in himself.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.