Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.