An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.

We are bound, you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you.

Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. But if I couldn't forgive him, then I could not love him, and that part of me was gone. And I found eventually that I wanted it back." ({Lord John, Drums of Autumn}

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.