My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

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.

Change can only work in two ways – for the better, or for the worst. Yet, regardless of whatever manner in which change comes into our lives, what matters is how we view it and how we react to it.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

...I could never explain how the image and the reality merge, and how they somehow extend and beautify each other.

I will never abandon one opportunity and wait for another. We have not reached the goal we are striving for. What you see now is nothing compared to our vision…just tiny parts of what lies ahead.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

You are never too young to lead.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.

I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.