If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

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.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?