Lois McMaster Quotes
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.
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People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
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Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.
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All true wealth is biological.
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One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.