That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

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.

I live below my means because it makes what I do seem less like a job and more like a passion.

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

I am very picky about my food, and I'm very health oriented, so I always try to cook.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

Science is a set of rules that keep the scientists from lying to each other.

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.

At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.

While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.