Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.

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.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.” “Why?” she asked. “Well. I met him,” I said.

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.