For most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

Science is just magic with better PR.

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.

Small facts lead to great knowing.