Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.

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.

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.

When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who've heeded, not hijacked, Islam. Or so says [Wafa] Sultan.

I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.

You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever.

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.