Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

Zombies are the new vampire.

Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.

I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.