"In my fiction I am careful to make everything probable and to tie up all loose ends. Real life is not hampered by such considerations."

"Harry Dresden: Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches …"

"Androids tend to blur the line between living and non-living. Especially in a case like the Human Torch, where his origin tends to establish him as something much more than a clever assemblage of non-…"

"In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase Ipse dixit was introduced into ordinary life."

"the Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear."