I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled.

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.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

We live in a very gynophobic society

Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.

If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?