Better safe than exsanguinated.

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 you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

I'm way hot," he muttered. "But I don't feel sick. Just — way hot." Fang

The West is anything but altruistic.

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

Your music has been a powerful vehicle for your philosophies.