Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.

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.

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.