There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

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.

Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night.

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media.

But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end.

I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.