Marcone's scum... But he's his own scum.

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.

Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.

I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.

Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.

We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.

If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.