A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.