The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.

There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It.