It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others.

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.

HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment

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.

My greatest gratitude

Truth could never be wholly contained in words.

Tragedies break us, yet sometimes they make us.

I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way.

I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

After a hit show is over, you soon realize this is a very tough business ... brutally tough. But I'm a better actor and I have more gravitas than I had at 24 with bleached-blonde hair.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

I had never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love doesn't seem like such a bad way to go.

It's not the average people that come to my show.