There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child was reversed in the universe next door.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.