The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

We're all so damned fragile.

I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.

Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows." "That's mostly done already, Harry." "Oh. Well. I've got to believe that the world is worth saving anyway.

Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher