...you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.

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.

When you are irrationally irrational you may find that life is magical.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

If you choose to get off the beaten path here, you'll find yourself in a situation where everything looks the same.

Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.

It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read.