Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.

... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one of those gorillas who has learned to paint. The results would have been of similar quality, and they could have paid in fresh produce. - Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher