All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.

That's what does it-- that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.

Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.