Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.