She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.

It would be quite unusual for me to get deep into a project and then shitcan it. One of the advantages of having done this for a while is that I have a better sense than I used to of when something is or isn't working. Until I developed that sense, this was a pretty dicey career for me, both in terms of paying the rent, and emotional wear and tear.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.

We see everything from the narrator's point of view, so exposition about the world is limited to what impinges directly on him and the story he's telling. Considering how old the world is, we learn very little about its history, which I think is a good thing.