“I got into magic because I got into alchemy. Which I got into because I was into chemistry, which I was learning about because I wanted to get better with botany, which I had taken up studying in a...”

“Vampire strength might not let me lift cars, but I will tear up some shrubbery all day long.”

“Albert died in an unfortunate accident sometime ago and was raised as a zombie by his amateur necromancer friend, Neil. Bubba was a new friend we had acquired in Vegas when helping him gain back th...”

“Look, Ill tell you what I do, but you wont believe me. Given that I just found you bound and gagged, my mind is somewhat more receptive than it might normally be. Well then, heres the deal, Krysta...”

“Are you telling me that vampires and werewolves are the reason America won the Revolutionary War?, I asked, dumbfounded.”

“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as ...”

“Vampire strength might not let me lift cars, but I will tear up some shrubbery all day long.”

“It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.”

“Albert died in an unfortunate accident sometime ago and was raised as a zombie by his amateur necromancer friend, Neil. Bubba was a new friend we had acquired in Vegas when helping him gain back th...”

“Look, Ill tell you what I do, but you wont believe me. Given that I just found you bound and gagged, my mind is somewhat more receptive than it might normally be. Well then, heres the deal, Krysta...”

“Are you telling me that vampires and werewolves are the reason America won the Revolutionary War?, I asked, dumbfounded.”

“It's true,' Mathilde said after some time, 'I could breathe fire.'She thought of how Lotto, in later years, had been called the lion. With his dander up, he could roar. He looked leonine too, his c...”

“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”

“Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.”