According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.