We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

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.

What have you gained since you haven't prayed? What will you lose if you pray?

Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.