Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.

Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.