Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.

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.

Awaken my soul.

Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!

Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there lies terror.

Scandal is only human.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

True Christians are assured that no temptation (or trial) shall happen to them but what they shall be enabled to bear; and that the grace of Christ shall be sufficient for them.

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.