The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.

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.

In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.

...Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to just stop caring.

When I talk to idiots, I get loud!

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

When I’m not working I try to go natural and not wear a lot of makeup. I think your skin needs to breathe.

Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.

Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

It's bEtter tO hAte me 4 whO i Am,thAn tO lUv 4 wAt i'm pretNdng tO bE.