Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

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I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.

Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

Harry, " Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.

I can worry about anything.

Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.

Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.

It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to that.

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.