There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.

Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.