We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.