Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes.

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky.

Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.

Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me.

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

We are therefore constantly on the road, straying from one mental image to the next, and identify with these images, and derive our identity from the images.

Magdalena doesn't ask what Rebecka is doing at the hospital. That's how Rebecka realizes that Magdalena knows. It's the things you don't say. That's what always gives a person away.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

Have faith in your own thoughts.

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.

I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

You don't inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.

When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.

Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.