Survival was not enough. One had to live.

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.

Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

Running a small country and managing a game is almost synonymous.

Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.

The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.