Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

...I know that in your heart you miss all those wonderful moments you spent with my father --watching him gnaw on the furniture, listening to his insane gibbering, and enjoying all those playful blows to the stomach and kicks to the head with which he demonstrated his affection for his wives. --King Urgit

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

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.

Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back," Beldin said sourly.