A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

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.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

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

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.