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.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

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I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.

The world is what you make of it

For every God there is a Satan, and because God made all of us godly, there is a Satan in us all.

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.

You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.