Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden

Artemis Entreri: Do not underestimate Jarlaxle. Many have; they all are dead.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual.