I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat." "The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon)

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.

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

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.