What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?
Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.
There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence
It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others