Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!

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 too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.

If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

Luck is the residue of good planning.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.

I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

Wives should be kissed - not heard.