A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

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.

HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment

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 worry. You're just as sane as I am-Luna Lovegood

For when he was poor, he had an unpretentious heart, but when he became rich, he became filled with arrogance.

Sometimes we punish ourselves the most.

I don't go around every other day calling for governors to resign. I don't think I ever have.

I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.

Been there, done that Sold crack, got jacked Got shot, came back Jumped on Dre's back!

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.