At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

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.

MacMillian pinched the bridge of his nose. Conspiracy theories, secret societies... what the hell had he gotten himself into? What was next? Vampires? Werewolves?

If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.