Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

What happened to your foot?" "I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between a hawk and a pigeon. I had to educate him. He bit me while I was tearing out a sizable number of his wing feathers." "Uncle," Polgara said reproachfully. "He started it.

Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.