Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable

You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating.

The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what?

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.