Quotes from K. J. Parker

The easiest way to do anything is properly.

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

if medical science is geography, then mankind as a species has a map with three towns marked on it and a lot of blank space with drawings of sea serpents.

The idea is to make the space around you into a zone where nothing mortal can survive.

When she started crying, all he wanted to do was hit her.

patient striving with tolerances in the quiet war against error.

Everybody dies." I said. "Mortality is the constant that defines our existence.