I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

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I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.

Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

Harry, " Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.

If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone.