This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.

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.

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

People keep planning their lives searching security and comfort. This silence is the only security I know those who can understand will understand.

If family or friends are unwell or ill - it's perhaps the only thing that really can make one feel vulnerable.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.