The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

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 am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

If you want to do something healthy for yourself - focus on your internal relationship. A diet, external, or materialistic fix WON'T work.

My part in AC/DC is just adding the color on top.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.