I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice – sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother.

Eat healthy, take showers and wear clean clothes, but don’t become vain or self-centered, in fact, be well dressed but have that careless untidy look, it will send contradictory signals which is a powerful trait for guys.

Well, you better get ready for 700 pages on sexuality, dinner parties, jealousy, memory, art and beauty.

Their life from the cradle to the grave is a concentration of all their faculties, mortal and immortal, upon the two vital questions, digestion and sex.

“I guess you’d say it’s a theme park whose big theme is – theme parks should have bigger themes,” said Banksy.

Before Ebony and Rose Potter were even mere plot bunnies, Harry Potter fans often cited another name when asked to give an example of a Mary Sue. That name is Eliza Diawna Snape.

Blonde, blue-eyed Dr. Nels Bergenholm, completely undisturbed by the passage of the stream of bullets through his head and body, turned and waved one huge hand at a stool beside his own.

“My visualization is not entirely clear concerning the succession of events stemming from the fact that the fusion of which Drounli is a part did not destroy Gharlane of Eddore while he was energizing Gray Roger,” a young Watchman, Eukonidor by symbol, thought into the assembled mind.

My name is Meredith Gentry, but of course it’s not my real name. I dare not even whisper my true name after dark for fear that one hushed word will travel over the night winds to the soft ear of my aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness.

In this universe vampires are “out” and apparently run the arts; Kenny G is a vampire as is Shiana Twain.