It's all a compost heap. You just put down a layer of humus that helps other stuff grow. Your work will all be forgotten, but it will help stuff grow.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

All I wanted for Christmas was a New Years Eve party that I would never forget. Too bad I got too drunk to remember it.

Silly Felix, hate and love are the flip sides of the same tarnished coin.

First we build the tools, then they build us.

All the drawing lacksis the final touch: To addeyes to the dragon

You are all you will ever have for certain.

I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.