When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain patterns: the mind organizes facts in story form; it is your commonality with that body of human thought that makes a good book, not its estrangement from the common values that humans share.

Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.

Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds.