I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

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.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

I accomplished so many things, so early in my career.

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own.

I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

Be yourself, you’ll be a lot happier.

I think I've been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.

The element of fashion I'd like to see more often? Clothes that fit people well. For me it's not so much about the clothes.

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.