Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.

Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.