Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts

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.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love

Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success.

Staying motivated in business is really less about what you hear and think, and more about what you do and achieve.

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better.

Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself.

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

I can tell you my feelings were hurt.

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.