Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.

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.

Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday.

Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.

We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?

American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

Did that remind anybody else of something?" "Yes," Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. "How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.

I wanted to continue to be active on those things that I cared about when I was president where I could still have an impact.