Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.

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.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it?

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

Self-complacen cy is fatal to progress.

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.