If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.

You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.

There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).