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

Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however." "My apologies to your horse.

But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?

The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It's a game. A very exciting game that's played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don't.

Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.

The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other. -Kheldar