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

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.

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

It's not religion that's the problem - it's the lack of religion!

Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself