There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.

This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)