There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.

The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.