Life’s uncertain out there. Things can go down bad, fast, anytime. We all just get a time, in our different ways. - Lois McMaster Bujold

I don't take information and experience into my mind in that organized a fashion, but when I want to bring it out, somehow it's there. You write what you know because — like there's another choice? The trick is to try and know as much as possible.

I’m not responsible for my weird ancestors. Quite the reverse. Exactly the inverse.

I had a teacher who used to reflect back my questions that way. I thought it was the Socratic method, and it impressed me immensely, until I found out he used it whenever he didn’t know the answer.