“He taught his kids to gamble on whether or not Santa would show up each year. He always won.” #writing

“He was the type of guy would play an old security guard––you know the kind, the type that gets killed for no good reason.” #writing

“Instead of cars and dreaming about flying cars, we should be developing personal space vehicles. Then we can make this country manageable again by sending people out there. If they’re not here, they can’t cause problems.” #writing #throwawayline

“Space is about money and power. Sometimes, power holds sway and at others, money. The only way the poor and non-conformists will ever get into space is if they are deported there.” #writing

Authors don’t inhabit other peoples’ lives. They create them. #writing #author

“The back of the napkin are where great ideas are born. Always know where your napkin is.” #writing

“You don’t need to break even to be a success or to be happy.” #writing

“…and everyone lived happily ever after until Frank had to leave to save the universe again. Then, everything turned to Hell.” #writing

“Don’t call me that. I bring death, and reaping is what I do. But my name is Jim.” #writing

“He collected book cover art the way others collected money. He died when someone published a digital art cover.” #writing #art #books

“I love my job. Don’t have to think.” #writing

“She was the man-in-the-middle.” #writing #cryptography

“The arcane and eldritch. That’s my specialty. Weird words few know.” #writing

“The future is yours if you live long enough to see it, which I seriously doubt you will.” #writing

“If you want the future to be just like it was/is, you obviously don’t care about life.” #writing

Good writing session today. #writing

“Being pulled out of your time is like being pulled out of your space, but harder to get back to.” #writing

“An insult isn’t personal, until you deem it so. The weaker you are, the more offensive it appears.” #writing

“If your plan is to kill people you don’t like, you don’t need someone telling you to do it.” #writing

“It was so cold, that they couldn’t come up with a metaphor for it.” #writing #throwawayline

“How many martinis would it take to prove you wrong?” #writing #throwawayline

Observed: “He walked into the bar smelling of a urinal cake.” #writing #character

“The cold permeated the second layer of skin.” Wait! What? Second layer of skin? You’re making that up! Anatomy, son. I could’ve said third, but it wasn’t that cold. #writing #throwawayline

“There was frost on his nose. There was frost on his toes. The frostbite was settling in and gangrene was at the door knocking to come in out of the cold.” #writing

“It’s easy being perfect. Just don’t make mistakes. Anyone can do that, but no one is willing to pay the cost.” #writing