Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will...
One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.
One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down.
The only exercise I get is jumping to conclusions.
Early birds. Let ’em eat worms.
Only a conquerer bothers to honor a fallen foe.
Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause.
I greeted the morning the only way that makes sense. I groaned. I groaned some more as I pried me off the sheet. Several thousand maniacs were raising hell out in the street. I muttered dreadful threa...
I admitted, This might not have been one of my brighter ideas. On the contrary. It confirms our suspicions that there’s a greater interest in us than should be for simple travellers. They mean to use...
Still, the best augurs are those who divine from the portents of the past. They compile phenomenal records.
A herd of minuscule lightning bugs poured out of One-Eye's nostrils. Good soldiers all, they fell into formation, spelling out the words
I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.
There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time.
The river barge Binkey's Sequin reminded me of a shopkeeper's wife. She was middle-aged, middle class, a little run down, a little overweight, extremely stubborn and set in her ways, needing masterful...
More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
If a man speaks in the heart of a forest and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?
Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.
I cry for a little girl's dreams. I cry because the dreams will not die, though I am powerless to make them come true.
Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.
No one will sing songs in our memory. We are the last of the Free Companies of Khatovar. Our traditions and memories live only in these Annals. We are our only mourners. It is the Company against the...
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