I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.

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.

To Change Priority Is A Sign Of A New Discovery

Yesterday is a closed door. Tomorrow is the opening of a new one. What are you doing to seize the moment?

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'

I don't watch too much TV when it comes to sports or news or things like that.

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

One of the great consolations . . . is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so.

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.