Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.

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.

A good idea isn't good until you consider the idea as a good

Tis only when faced with our own mortality that we truly realize what it means to be alive,

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.

I think, again, neither of these candidates [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] is blowing me away. Actually, I would like both of them to get more policy specific.

Don't leave the one who loves you for the one you like because the one you like will leave you for the one they like.

Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.

Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.