You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.