The less attractive the character, the more I enjoyed writing them. Officious bureaucrats and PowerPoint weasels are where it's at for me.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.

I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.

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.

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

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.