Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

I like being a writer.

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

However, you do need rules. Driving on the left (or the right or, in parts of Europe, on the left and the right as the mood takes you) is a rule which works, since following it means you're more likely to reach your intended rather than your final destination.

He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?