Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.

When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.

Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

Sarcasm was a weapon for children.

It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.

The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.

No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?

But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.

It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth.

Love is friendship set to music.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

Where human knowledge ends the imagined God begins.

Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy.

No one ever erected a statue of a critic.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.

Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.

There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.