Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

It is very bad that some successful people don't really feel they are so, but it is even worse when some unsuccessful people don't really know they are.

Preparing for the worst Dealing with the worse Putting up with the bad Expecting the good Achieving better Hoping for the best