Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

The future looks a bit bleak to me.

I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other people’s livestock. Other people’s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them. They were different in so many ways, white and black, yellow and brown, skinny, short, tall, small, but they were all the same. Didn’t matter if they wore finger-bone necklaces, or baby teeth on bracelets, or tattoos on their chests to ward off bullets. In the end, they were all mangled with battle scars and their eyes were all dead.

Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.