Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

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.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive

I am the brightest light beaming from the darkest depths. A dichotomy, i am . . . illumination.

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.

I do want to give out a positive message and be successful.