Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.

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.

It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

I was like, "Everybody sees my characters. Nobody sees me!"

Sometimes we forget that sin really is optional.

It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.