The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.

There but for the... good choices I've made, genetics, psychological conditioning, and 10K random elements, go I.

I once took a city with five men and a lame goat. If I can do that, you can convince the necromancers to pledge themselves to you. Do this or die.

Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

No one hurts my family and lives

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board

Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.

My portal to another world was fiction.

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.