I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape

Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.

Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.

Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.

It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.