......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again.

Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?

Do ye dare to draw arms against the justice of God?" snapped the tubby little judge. Jamie drew the sword completely, with a flash of steel, then thrust it point-first into the ground, leaving the hilt quivering with the force of the blow. "I draw it in defense of this women, and the truth," he said "If any here be against those two they'll answer to me, and then God, in that order.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.