Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly.

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.