It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.

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 words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

Sanity - a trick of agreement

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.