We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

(“Tell me,” a rabbi asked Daniel Bell when he said, as a child, that he did not believe in God. “Do you think God cares?”)

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

And if I’ve got to die, I want to die an editor.

Just when you’ve squared up to the solemn realisation that life is a bitch, it turns round and does something nice, just to confuse you. - Emily Spitzer, The Better Mousetrap

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.

Mordak has the mental clarity to recognise that when it comes to running a bureaucracy, Elves can achieve a degree of blinkered ruthlessness that makes goblins look like teddy-bears.

Tom Holt

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