"Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal."

"A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in t…"

"There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. Th…"

"They rode armed for war, curved swords at their side and the thick horn-and-sinew bows of mounted archers in cases at…"

"The waxen line of the bowstrings struck their leather bracers with a light whapping sound ... A man dropped from each…"

"The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at hi…"

"....another vision, where water still curled on the sandy beach beneath a clear blue sky where birds flew, but their …"

"One of the pieces of advice his father had given him when he got his commission was that excitable women were wearing…"

"When men hunted each other to eat, there could be no trust, and trust was what let even the wildest men work together."

"They’re starting to live a little more like human beings and a little less like mad beasts. The problem is that men a…"