Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

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

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

We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.