There's a cover for every pot, but I've never seen so many mismatched pots and covers in all my life. - Ellen Wasserfeldman, from Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman by Alisa Dana Steinberg

Remember where you are and adjust yourself accordingly, not vice-versa ... otherwise, you might be toast.

Just Do What you feel, and Don't you fool yourself

Nico’s anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He’d been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn’t appreciate it. He hated people like Bryce Lawrence, who inflicted pain just for fun.

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.