It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.

All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.