"There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands..."
— Simon R. Green

""Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.""
— Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)

"Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work. "
— Jeff Lindsay

"What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur."
— Jeff Lindsay (Dearly Devoted Dexter)

"Once the mind has been stretched by a new idea, it will never again return to its original size."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.' "
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer."
— Dean Koontz (False Memory)

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
— Will Rogers

"I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room."
— Steven Wright

"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. "
— Steven Wright

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

"You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said.
Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window."
"Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it."
"Twice."
"Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen."
— J.R. Ward (Lover Unbound)

"Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise."
— J.R. Ward (Lover Unbound)