Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.

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.

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business

Investing in yourself is one of the foundations for better relationships, health, happiness, success, and prosperity.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

I suppose I am proud of what has gone on, after all I only ever wanted to play the guitar for a living, and that is what I am still doing.

I personally don’t feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn’t if I tried anyway.

If you don't read news.groups, the net appears to be a rather tranquil place.

The more people who have access to this vital information the better society will be.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.