You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.