Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

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.

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.

I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.

The best jokes on The Leftovers are the ones that make you feel a little sick to your stomach.

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.

Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.

There are two phases of the redeployment of the Israeli forces in the West Bank: One, to allow elections. Second, after the elections, to help further redeployment.