Lois McMaster Bujold ( boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award....
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
—Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.