A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

You have to look at not only who you would like to win but also who you'd like to lose.

They return in small groups, but that's an opportunity for them to get at each other.

He was slashed or stabbed a number of times, including head and shoulder wounds.

The passage of time and the action of entropy bring about ever-greater complexity – a branching, blossoming tree of possibilities. Blossoming disorder (things getting worse), now unfolding within the constraints of the physics of our universe, creates novel opportunities for spontaneous ordered complexity to arise.