Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.

Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.