An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

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

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.