Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.

They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.