You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.

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 is a kind of truth in a well-told lie. When we look back, we don't see things as they were but how we would like them to have been.

I'm just taking one match at a time.

I really feel incredibly fortunate to not be stereotyped. And it's something that I and my representatives are very keen on preserving.

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart

I want to be the best role model I can be for my family.

I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.

Murder is a plant of slow growth.

I'd really like to give back to the world, but everything I've achieved, I've earned on my own, so what's the point?