When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

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.

HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment

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's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

We're getting to the point where it's important for each platform to have unique, differentiated titles -- so that if consumers want to buy that game, they have to buy that system

Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.

It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.