You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But, I saw-" "What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind." "What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.

Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier