Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden

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 think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.

When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.

No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.

I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.