I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.

That really was NOT fun, though. Well, the hitting-her-with-a-stick part, that was fun. But crashing into a concrete bear? NOT fun.

Fear, " the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Sociopaths are just like everybody else in that some of them are really brilliant, some of them are really stupid, and most of them are somewhere in between.

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in.

The Soviet Union has become the seacoast of the universe.