Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

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.

Animals will always have sad eyes because they can see into the soul of man.

When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait.

There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.

With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.

Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.