This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.

I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe. Science can explain a lot, but it cannot give us faith, and I think we need both.

Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.