Pansy," Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.

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.

Surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping

Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom." ~ "The Hole

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

Except for our bodies there are no other temples in the world

I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.

Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.