Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms.""Eh?""Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.

Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.

Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?""Because they're real.""How do you know?""The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

Ease off the martyr throttle.

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.

What's with that?” Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. “Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie?