It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.

Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.

Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.

...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.