An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.