“An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.”

“Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is.”

“Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.”

“Another damn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?(On publication of Vol. 1 of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire”

“If somebody wants to be your enemy, there's only one thing you can do. You give them exactly what they want. It confuses them and makes them wonder what you're up to.”

“There are diamonds in the red clay of northeast Alabama. Delaney is one of them.”

“In the dark ages a vampire could live for decades unopposed, feeding nightly on people whose only defense was to bar their windows and lock their doors and always, always, be home before sundown. When it became necessary to slay a vampire there was only one way it could be done. There were no guns and certainly no jackhammers at the time. The vampire slayers would gather up every able-bodied male in the community. The mob of them would go against the vampire with torches and spears and sticks if they had to. Very many of them would die in the first onslaught but eventually enough of them would pile on top to hold the vampire down.”