I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.