It was two weeks before Christmas. A slow time of year for raising the dead.

Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong. Pessimism will keep you alive, optimism won't.

I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.

Personally, I think neutral is just another way of saving your own ass at the expense of someone else's.

One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.

Confidence is a fine trait. Overconfidence isn't.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

If ideals mean nothing ... then we are just animals.

Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.

Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.

The world, the creation as a whole, is designed to move forward, to keep on keeping on without any one individual person. It feels damn impersonal, and it is. But, then, if the world stopped rotating just because one of us was having a bad day, we'd all be floating out in space.

Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.

Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.

To know another's heart, you must first know your own.

The only good enemy is a dead enemy.

It always amazes me how many women like dangerous men. Men who almost from the moment you meet them, you know are bad news. Me, I prefer my men kinder, gentler, nice. Niceness is highly underrated by most people.

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

I'm not real big on repentence ... I like revenge better.

I've learned over the years that if someone says they're a god, you don't argue with them unless you're better armed.

True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

The best lies are always at least partially true.

Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil.... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely.

The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.

People who don't camp much think darkness falls from the sky. It doesn't. Darkness slides from the trees and fills them first, then spreads outward to the open places.

God doesn't always save someone. Often He just helps you live through the loss. I guess I don't entirely trust God. I never doubt Him, but his motives are too beyond me. Through a glass darkly and all that. Just once I'd like to see through that damn glass clearly.

If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.

The universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

Hatred makes us all ugly.

Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane.

If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.

We're all creatures of light and darkness. Embracing your darkness won't kill the light. Goodness is stronger than that.

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.

Heroes don't get anything but dead.