All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.