I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.

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.

When you can't make it, just fake it

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

I warm up. I do about 50 push-ups with my trainer and my security just to get pumped up before a show, get our energy up. And then I just go have fun.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.

But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.