It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.

Katar," Raoden called. Yes, My Lord?" Do you know what it is? The secret, I mean?" Kahar smiled. "I havent't been hungry in days, my lord. It is the most amazing feeling in the world-I don't evern notice the pain anymore." Raoden nodded, and Kahar left. The man had come looking for a magical solution to his woes, but he had found an answer much more simple. Pain lost its power when other things became more importan. Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to save him-he just needed something to do.

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

I was ten,” I said. “Give me a little credit.” “To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect—but not credit. Or life insurance.” Abraham sounded amused. “You are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.

Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.