She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

Some of my Arcanum bunkmates taught me a card game called dogs-breath. I returned the favor by giving an impromptu lesson in psychology, probability, and manual dexterity. I won almost two whole talents before they stopped inviting me back to their games.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

I was just wondering why you're here.