No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.

Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already!

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

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.