You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.

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.

My books are water

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

I am all for the short and merry life.

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

I like somebody a lot, let me just put it like that.