Existence is the gift. Life is a choice.

Fear was a reminder that even the insubstantial could kill. But insubstantial meant it had no shape. It couldn't be conquered or tamed or avoided. Only moved through, with force and will.

All war is philosophical. That's why we call it war. Strip it of its paint and it's nothing more than murder.

Beauty, coveted though it was, could not outlive you. Only actions would.

Ah, desire. Such a poisonous thing.

Enough tiny sharp jabs can cut as deeply as any knife.

A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.

The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.

Time travel was only a kind of magic, after all. That's why it always went wrong.

Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.