To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that I don't necessarily get to tell.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.