Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.
Steven Brust

I'd rather be running the game than playing it.
Steven Brust

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
Steven Brust

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?
Steven Brust

Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.
Steven Brust

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.
Steven Brust

But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.
Steven Brust