If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.

Just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on your side.

That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when you had to at least learn to run a mimeograph, and you had to pay postage to distribute your deathless prose, people who didn't actually have much to say for themselves found other hobbies

There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason to care what happens. It's all arbitrary, and arbitrary isn't interesting.