"For a typical author, obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy."

"It is not the similarity or dissimilarity of individuals that constitutes a group, but interdependence of f…"

"The Porte, acting under the same obligation, and wishing to secure the safety of its army and its citizens,…"

"That is the marvel -- to question but not to understand. Seeing is the true language of perception. Underst…"

"The writer doesn’t push story into us, he withholds information in order that we draw his story out of ours…"

"Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek the Fox would sa…"

"What if there is a ruling that, uh, you cannot apply civil penalties to, uh, practicing sodomites?"