Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.

Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.

If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.

When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.

As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.

Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?

A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.

Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.

You turned your guilt into resentment, because that seems easier to face. You won't move on until you turn it back into guilt, and then into forgiveness for yourself.

Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.

Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.

Progressing at a snail’s pace is still progress, and slow progress is better than no progress. Never be stagnant, and never give up.

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

Any fool can criticize and many of them do.

A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

You have to love your work. You have to save money instead of spending all of it. Look for areas you can compete in. Work damn hard. Most importantly, you have to love it.

Do I love him? Yes. But when the final battle comes, I'll have to kill him. That's just our reality. We both know exactly where we stand."- Francesca

Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.

Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.

While as he yet doth breath extend, no man is blest; behold the end.