Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.

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.

It takes a human being to not do wrong in return.

We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

In my 35 years in the army I was in school for 6 years. I think corporations should take a look at whether they are investing enough in the development of their human capital.

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

The first step is to believe that it's possible. Once I had a taste of success, you start to believe in it a little more.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

There are silver ships There are gold ships, But there are no ships Like friendships.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.