Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.

I was just wondering why you're here.

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

I don't really have a lot of expensive tastes. What else am I really going to do with my money? Buy a little red sports car? Wear a lot of jewelry? Build a castle? Well... I might do the last one. Maybe. Eventually. But that doesn't mean I can't run Worldbuilders too.