“The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.”

“If you can't do what you want, do what you can.”

“Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.”

“The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.”

“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.”

“The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.”

“I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.”