Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

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.

In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

Sometimes you never feel lonelier than when you are always doing tons of things and traveling all over the place. There is a real feeling of loneliness sometimes.

I like Public Enemy a great deal.

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.