Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

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.

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

I like to breed players that attack people.

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunately, their voices are not necessarily heard as loudly as they should be.

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.