What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private, serene humor in his eyes. 'There is little logic in condemning something one has not experienced...or does not remember experiencing.

Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.

Dear Artificer, I’ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!

So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!