There are no promises in life, Sludig, but it seems to me smarter to take fewer chances. — Tad Williams

She knew that life was but a long struggle against disorder, and that disorder was the inevitable winner.

He wanted a home desperately. He was close to the point where he would take a mattress in Hell if the Devil would lend him a pillow.

There are three kinds of people—the living, the dead, and those at sea.