You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope of absolute good versus absolute evil, which was wonderful in the hands of J.R. Tolkien, became cliche and rote in the hands of the many Tolkien imitators that followed.

An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.