But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, "BOO!

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.

At times in life you must rediscover your footing.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

Beauty that arose out of pain.