Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.

My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these great dreams but I always forget them in the morning so I’ll leave a pad on my bedside table so I can write it down, and then you have some incredible dream and you write it down and the next morning you wake up and you’ve written ‘purple socks’.

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.