This is what it look like when it WORKS?

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.

Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

With religion we divide people. With unconditional love we bring them under the same umbrella.

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

Skinny foodie, get away from me.

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.