Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

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.

Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone.

Think of how far you've come, " Maggie said softly. "And then ask yourself how much farther you wish to go

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

I smoked 20 cigarettes to get that sound because I'd read that John Lennon smoked a load of cigarettes on "Twist and Shout".

Start with a 'Yes', and see where that takes you.