Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.

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.

It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

Can't you see... that I made it? Yeah I made it First I made you who you are, but then I made it.

Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting.

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

The most radical act anyone can commit is to be happy.

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.