When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

The future looks a bit bleak to me.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

Even if mankind can go on without them, a piece of our vibrantly diverse world dies along with each species.

Reflect on what you do in your day. You may have never realized how some simple harmless activities rob you of precious time

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

Time is nothing absolute its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose that counts " probably lost.

I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.

You could place one product in a first-run telecast, a second product what that program is rerun, and a third product when the show goes into syndication, and another product when it goes on cable.

None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.