Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise.

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.

Vanity, thy name is vampire.