Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.

The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future.

He's asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit.

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A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

You can't make a date in death's dateless night.