Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

Soon,” said the crackling voice of the flame, coming from behind him, “they will fall. Soon they will fall and the star people will meet the earth people. There will be heroes among them, and men who will slay monsters and bring knowledge, but none of them will be gods. This is a poor place for gods.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid.

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.