Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

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.

You are a mousetrap of a friend, all soft cheese and hard springs

Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever.

Get out of bed. Go to classes. Try to be normal, and pretty soon all that grief you carry...it gets easier.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and forever.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Trusting the government to monitor your calls without listening. It's kind of like trusting Chris Christie to pick up the McDonald's and not eat the fries on the way home.

[Wilhelm] Bruckner was one of [Adolf] Hitler's adjutants, very close to him and he'd been in the party probably since day one. Personally neither of us could stand him.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.