We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.

But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing?

Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.