Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.

As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you" - Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker

Most innovative little board game since Chess.

Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo

I have nothing against kids—as long as they go home with their parents at the end of the day.

selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.

This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.

The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.

Love! In this world of sorrow, you're my source of joy.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?

Policemen are numbered in case they get lost.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.