Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

I was in ’78 recently,” he announced. “I brought you this.”He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn’t recognize the title.”Didn’t they split in ’70?””Not always. How are things?

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

You’re just a huge romantic at heart, aren’t you?””If there’s cash involved, I’m anything you want me to be.

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can’t be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

If a shred of integrity fell into your soul, it would die a very lonely death.

but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.

Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won’t, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope

No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to rebuild after the Second War and it should not be forgotten. Of late, however, it seems...

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious...

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners …

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts–and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field–is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it...

Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives to keep a watchful eye on any provincial problems. They are...

Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn’t collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs.

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell...

Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.

All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn’t so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main...

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

You like economics, don’t you?’ I asked. ‘Everyone should know the basics,’ said the Princess. ‘Lasting peace will only be brought about through economic means – we should be trading with the Trolls rather than...

That’s the thing about destiny: It can’t be predicted, and it’s usually pretty odd.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.