All knowledge is worth having

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

My lord. It is too much, and not enough

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.