For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them.

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.

Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions.

How can He be perfect? Everything He ever makes...dies.

Shine brightly thy inner light.

Maybe he's up to something, maybe he'ś not really crazy after all. Perhaps he just got fed up acting normal and decided to act crazy instead, and they locked him up because he went too far.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just becomes creativity by committee, which is never good.

His eyes were green chips of flame, and the growl was so thick it blurred the air around him, the sound of a very pissed off skinchanger.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.