God save me from idealists.

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 know how men in exile feed on dreams

Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.

We've built a new Earth. It's not as nice as the old one; it's the greatest mistake humans have ever made, one that we will pay for literally forever.

Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

Every moment of living has its own logic, its own meaning.

Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

All power is His and within His command.