If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out.