There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

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.

There was healing in the tyranny, and tyranny in the healing.

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

We are tyrannized by our options.

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

I used to like studying a lot.

Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.

I mean, even New York isn't in any great shape anymore in relation to the rest of the world.

When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything, and no one can do that.