Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.

- S.M. Stirling

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

- S.M. Stirling

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

- S.M. Stirling

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

- S.M. Stirling

Nothing's free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.

- S.M. Stirling

Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awf…

- S.M. Stirling

Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?

- S.M. Stirling

Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even…

- S.M. Stirling

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

- S.M. Stirling