Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the
myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.
Do not teach your congregation to pray. Someday they might succeed.
Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.
Ever has common decency paved the way to uncommon folly.
I wished I’d thought of that last before I’d departed. It might have been good advice to give out in my final days in Copper Downs, had I been able to fit such a conversation in between my busy schedule of murder, arson, and funerary rites.
Pregnancy, childbirth, healing and old age all required gee force. No amount of gengineering by the Biomistresses of the great stations could circumvent that inescapable evolutionary fact.